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Textile fragment with deer, flowers, and hearts
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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, brown, and possibly green, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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46 x 24.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › 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.
- EA1990.1095
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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. 1088 on p. 325 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 325 fig. 1088
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 wide red band with large, light-green tendrils linked in heart shapes separates two areas with an overall design. One has an ornate floral pattern, red and blue on white and linked by fine, brown lines. The other has eight-pointed flowers, crest shapes, and small deer, all defined by fine, brown lines on a white ground, and filled with red and blue details.
Selvedge with puncture marks from stitching, but no thread left. The reverse shows less dye saturation for red and brown, but more for the blue.
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