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Textile fragment with linked circles and rosettes
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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
- four pieces of cotton, block-printed with resist, mordant-dyed red, dyed black, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue; joined with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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56 x 30 cm (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3, along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4, along length/width 14 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1102
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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. 1095 on p. 328 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 328 fig. 1095
Vogelsang-Eastwood, Gillian, The Resist Dyed Textiles from Quseir al-Qadim, Egypt (Paris: Association pour l'étude et la documentation des textiles d'Asie, 1990), illus. 54, 114.
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 continuous design that can be read in two ways: either as linked, overlapping circles with a small, red rosette at the centre, or as linked, blue quatrefoils with the rosettes set between the leaves. The design is identical to Cat. no. 1092 [EA1990.1099].
The fragment is sewn together from four pieces, with some attention paid to match the design. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. One fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim possibly has the same design of linked quatrefoils (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. no. 57).
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