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Textile fragment with reversed S-shapes, rosettes, and quatrefoils
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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 resist, and dyed blue; joined with a run-and-fell seam, and with repair stitching in cotton
- Dimensions
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25.5 x 13 cm max. (length x width)
ground fabric 1, along length/width 17 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2, along length/width 16 / 18 threads/cm (thread count)
block 15 cm estimated (length)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,coloured › dyed › resist dyed,dyed › resist dyed,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1990.10
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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. 2 on p. 1 (vol. ii), vol. ii pp. 2-3, illus. vol. ii p. 1 fig. 2
Pfister, R., Les toiles imprimées de Fostat et l'Hindoustan (Paris: Les Éditions d'Art et d'Histoire, 1938), cat. pl. XIV b, illus. 58
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Cotton Fragments in the Kelsey Museum: The University of Michigan, viii, Kelsey Museum Studies, 8 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993), cat. 5, illus. 37
Irwin, John, and Margaret Hall, Indian Painted and Printed Fabrics, Historic Textiles of India at the Calico Museum, Ahmedabad, 1 (Ahmedabad: Calico Museum of Textiles, 1971), cat. Pl.5b, illus. 13
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
Reversed s-shapes, eight-petalled rosettes without central dot and star-shaped quatrefoils, similar to Cat. no. 1 [EA1990.9], but all s-shapes have the same direction. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.
Two fragments held together by a flat seam (run-and-fell seam). Some additional stitching, probably to mend the fragment. Some overlapping of design in one fragment defines length or width of block as 15 cm.
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