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Textile fragment with flowers and ribbons
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Details
- Associated place
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Europe (probable place of creation)
- Date
- late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930)
- Material and technique
- cotton, machine woven and printed, and dyed red, blue, and purple
- Dimensions
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33.5 x 13 cm (length x width)
along length/width 32 / 31 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1216
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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. 1212 on p. 366 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 366 fig. 1212
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
Delicate blue and purple flowers encircled by red ribbons, on a white ground.
The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The fabric was machine woven and printed.
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