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Textile fragment with bunches of flowers
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- probably late 19th century
- Material and technique
- cotton, printed and dyed dark-blue, green, red, and yellow
- Dimensions
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160 x 81 cm (warp x weft)
13 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1226
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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. 1220 on p. 369 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 370, illus. vol. ii p. 369 fig. 1220
Bühler, Alfred, Ikat, Batik, Plangi: Reservemusterungen auf Garn und Stoff aus Vorderasien, Zentralasien, Südosteuropa und Nordafrika, 3 vols (Basel: Pharos-Verlag H. Schwabe, 1972), I:173; III:Pl.295.
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 large textile with a continuous design field of diagonally arranged bunches of red flowers with green leaves against a dark blue background. Along the selvedges are narrow borders filled with small flowers.
Two selvedges. The textile is woven from fine thread, and dye saturation is equal on surface and reverse. It is probably a late 19th-century fabric, of Indian origin.
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