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Textile fragment with arches or stupas, and arches probably based on kufic script
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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, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and brown
- Dimensions
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24 x 13.5 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 16 / 13 threads/cm (thread count)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.580
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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. 573 on pp. 169-170 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 170 & 174, illus. vol. ii p. 169 fig. 573
Glossary
kufic
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kufic
A term denoting various styles of angular Arabic script. Emerged in the early centuries of Islam, kufic soon became the preferred hand to copy holy texts.
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 band with a pattern that can be read either as white arches against a red ground, or as red stupas. The shape has a cluster of nine squares inside. On either side of this band is another band with small roundels, lines, and arches, white against a brown background. The same combination of bands is repeated at right angles.
The arches probably have their source in Kufic script. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.
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