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Textile fragment with stylized plants
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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, applied with resist (probably by hand), mordant-dyed red, and resist-dyed blue; with stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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17 x 12 cm (length x width)
along length/width 21 / 23 threads/cm (thread count)
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- Technique index
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1125
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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. 1118 on p. 336 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 335, illus. vol. ii p. 336 fig. 1118
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. Pl.XIIId, illus. 57
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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Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
A continuous design of stylized, red plants surrounded by white tendrils on a blue ground, identical to Cat. no. 1117 [EA1990.1124].
There are stitches in two corners, probably modern. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The resist was apparently drawn on by hand. The fragment is identical in design and technical detail to Cat. no. 1117 [EA1990.1124], and possibly was originally part of the same fabric. A similar fragment was found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: 34 and 86).
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