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Textile fragment with flowering branches or fronds
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › India › west India › Gujarat (place of creation)
- Date
- 18th century (1701 - 1800)
- Material and technique
- cotton, twill woven, and embroidered with coloured silk
- Dimensions
- 32.5 x 20 cm (length x width)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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assembled › woven › twill woven,woven › twill woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Purchased, 1993.
- Accession no.
- EA1993.383
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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), illus. vol. i illus. 20
Irwin, J., ‘'The commercial embroidery of Gujerat in the seventeenth century', {JISOA}, XVII’, JISOA, (1949), 51-56
Location
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- currently in research collection
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