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Textile fragment with tendrils, vine leaves, and flowers or fruit
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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, possibly hand-applied with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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11 x 17 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.1018
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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. 1011 on p. 300 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 300 fig. 1011
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 band with blue tendrils and red vine leaves with serrated edges, as well as blue and red flowers or fruit. The design has a white background. In addition there is a narrow band with a row of rosettes and zigzag borders.
Selvedge parallel to the bands. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation for the red. There is no evidence of resist application for the blue.
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