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Textile fragment with medallions, flowers, and hearts
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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
- two pieces of cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red, brown, and pale-blue; joined with a seam in flax
- Dimensions
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41.5 x 28 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
block 9.5 x 9.5 cm estimated (length x width)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,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.
- EA1990.1055
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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. 1048 on p. 311 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 311 fig. 1048
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 continuous design of white medallions and flowers on a red ground, followed by a narrow band with small, white spirals, and a wider band with stylized, white plants and heart shapes on a red ground. Finally, there is a narrow band with small, linked leaves or plants, white and outlined in brown, against a pale blue ground. The continuous design is similar to Cat. no. 634 [EA1990.640].
A finely sewn seam along one side of the fragment contains a very narrow strip of additional material of the same fabric. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. There is no evidence for the use of a resist to apply the blue. The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm.
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