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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and squares
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 2nd half of the 10th century - 15th century AD
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed with mordant, dyed purple and red, and applied with blue dye (probably by hand); with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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26.5 x 16 cm (warp x weft)
20 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.992
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 986 on p. 293 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 293 fig. 986
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Ornate quatrefoils and squares are set up diagonally to form a continuous pattern. The background is white, and the design is defined by fine, purple outlines. Both quatrefoil and square have a blue frame; the quatrefoil is filled with purple ornaments against a white ground, with red and blue at the centre, and the square is red with an ornate white flower at the centre. Additional purple and red details fill the space between.
Selvedge; the design is printed to extend beyond it. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red, purple, and blue. This suggests that the blue was not dyed by immersion, but was directly applied.
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