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Textile fragment with vine and palmette leaves
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in flax
- Dimensions
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31 x 10.5 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.1044
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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. 1037 on p. 308 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 312, illus. vol. ii p. 308 fig. 1037
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 blue border band with a large, red and white continuous vine and palmette leaves. A solid red band is on either side of it.
Selvedge parallel to the border band. The reverse shows slightly more red and blue than the surface.
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