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Textile fragment with squares, flowers, quatrefoils, and diamond-shapes
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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, possibly block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and blue
- Dimensions
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18 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 13 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.993
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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. 987 on p. 293 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 293 fig. 987
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design of squares, each with a pearl border and a small, interlaced knot at the centre, eight-petalled flowers, quatrefoils, and diamonds. The pattern is defined by red outlines on a white ground, and some details are filled in with light blue.
It is not certain how the dyes were applied. The reverse shows areas where there is more red than on the surface, and others where there is less. There is no sign of the use of resist for the application of blue.
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