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Textile fragment with linked rosettes, squares, and diamond-shapes
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Details
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- Date
- probably mid - late 19th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, block-printed, mordant-dyed red, and dyed light-blue; with remains of stitching in silk
- Dimensions
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16 x 46.5 cm (warp x weft)
25 / 27 threads/cm (thread count)
block 14 x 10 cm estimated (length x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk,
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1178
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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. 1174 on p. 355 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 355 fig. 1174
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
Two bands set at right angles to each other, with linked rosettes and small squares, and borders of linked diamonds. The pattern is white on a red ground, and partly filled with light blue. The design is as in Cat. no. 1173 [EA1990.1177].
Selvedge, with remains of stitching. Additional stitching is in the centre of the fragment. Surface and reverse show an equal dye saturation, and it is not possible to determine the method of mordant application. The blue was applied to the surface. The size of the block used was 14 cm. x 10 cm.
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