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Textile fragment with quatrefoils, stars, and rosettes
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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 red and purple, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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25 x 27 cm max. (warp x weft)
19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block (border) 13 x 9 cm estimated (length x width)
block (corner) 10 x 10 cm estimated (length x width)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1011
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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. 1004 on p. 297 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 298, 299, 302, & 315, illus. vol. ii p. 297 fig. 1004
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
Two bands with compartments of stars, rosettes, diamond shapes, and a divided leaf, at right angles to each other with a rosette in the corner between them. The design is primarily white on a red ground, with some blue details filled in. In addition there is a field with large quatrefoils, linked and defined by fine, purple outlines. The quatrefoils are made up from leaves and rosettes, primarily white and some blue on a red ground.
Selvedge. The fabric is woven from a very fine thread. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for red and purple, and slightly more for blue. The size of block used for the border band was 13 cm. x 9 cm., and 10 cm. x 10 cm. for the corner.
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