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Textile fragment with tendrils, ovals, and flowers
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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, mordant-dyed red, and dyed blue
- Dimensions
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18.5 x 8.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 32 / 33 threads/cm (thread count)
block 13 x 8 cm estimated (length x width)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.1110
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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. 1103 on p. 330 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 330 fig. 1103
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
Fine, white tendrils on a red ground surround oval and round flowers. Large leaves emerge from either side of the oval shape, forming a medallion that contains a flowering plant. All flowers are partly filled with light blue.
The fabric is woven from very fine thread, producing an unusually high density of threads per square centimetre. It is not possible to discern a difference between surface and reverse. There is no evidence for the use of resist to apply the light blue. The size of the block used was 13 cm. x 8 cm.
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