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Textile fragment with bands of flowers and dots
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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 resist, mordant-dyed red, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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44 x 35.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 15 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,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.
- EA1990.1092
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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. 1085 on p. 324 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 324-325, illus. vol. ii p. 324 fig. 1085
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 very wide series of bands, most of them made up of white dots on a red or blue ground. One band has eight-petalled flowers placed into squares defined by dotted outlines. There is the beginning of a continuous design with large and small white dots on a blue ground. The large dots also have red details.
The reverse shows very slightly more dye saturation than the surface.
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