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Textile fragment with shapes, possibly grapes

  • Details

    Associated place
    Egypt (find spot)
    Fustat (possible find spot)
    Gujarat (place of creation)
    Date
    late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930)
    Material and technique
    six pieces of cotton, block-printed, mordant-dyed red, and dyed yellow, pink, and green; border; fringe; joined with stitching in cotton
    Dimensions
    47 x 35.5 cm (warp x weft)
    ground fabric 1 15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 2 14 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 3 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 4 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 5 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
    ground fabric 6 17 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
    border 33 x 2.5 cm (warp x weft)
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    No. of items
    1
    Credit line
    Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
    Accession no.
    EA1990.1222
  • 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. 1216 on p. 368 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 368 fig. 1216

Location

    • currently in research collection

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A rectangular field with regular, diagonal rows of red ?grapes on a yellow ground. There is a border on three sides, with red flower-heads against a green ground, and fringes on the fourth side.

    Two selvedges. In addition to the above measurements, there is a border sewn on that measures warp 33 cm., weft 2.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The green is likely to be light blue dyed over yellow. The textile has a merchant's stamp on it. It is of late 19th- or early 20th-century date.

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