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Tab with plant
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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 dark-blue; with remains of stitching and additional stitching in blue thread, possibly silk, and repair stitching in white cotton
- Dimensions
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10.5 x 13 cm (warp x weft)
17 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 11 x 8 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
- Object type index
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textile › hanging › tent-hanging,
- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1080
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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. 1073 on p. 319 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 319 fig. 1073
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 tab containing an axis-symmetrical plant, similar to Cat. no. 1071 [EA1990.1078] but considerably smaller. The plant is white on a red ground, and there are some blue details. The background to the tab is deep blue.
Selvedge with remains of ?silk stitching along it. Additional stitching along one side of the tab, as well as white cotton stitching to mend the fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The size of the block used was 11 cm. x 8 cm.
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