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Textile fragment with vine, trefoils, and flowers
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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 resist, and dyed red and blue; joined with a rolled seam in flax
- Dimensions
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16 x 23.5 cm max. (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 16 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,dyed › mordant dyed,coloured › dyed › mordant dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.1056
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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. 1049 on p. 312 (vol. ii), illus. vol. ii p. 312 fig. 1049
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 large, continuous vine and red trefoils and flowers. The ground is white with a narrow, blue border containing a line of white dots. A similar dotted line fills parts of the vine. The band is set against a solid red background. In addition there is the beginning of a blue and white pattern.
A carefully sewn rolled seam joins the two fragments along their selvedges. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface, especially for the blue.
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