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Textile fragment with stylized plants and tendrils
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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, hand-applied with resist and mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue
- Dimensions
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38 x 18.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 24 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1118
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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. 1111 on pp. 332-333 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 332 fig. 1111
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. 34, 86
Lamm, Carl Johan, Cotton in Mediaeval Textiles of the Near East (Paris: Paul Geuthner, 1937), cat. 171, pl.XXIVb.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The main design field is divided into rectangular shapes, the largest with a version of the stylized plant pattern of Cat. no. 1107 [EA1990.1114]. It is blue, white, and red on a red ground that is filled with white tendrils. In addition there are smaller rectangles, filled with cross-hatching or red dots on a blue ground, all with a wavy outline. A band follows, with single blue leaves on a red ground.
The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The design is related to that of a fragment found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990).
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