Textile fragment with shapes, possibly grapes
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with shapes, possibly grapes
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Associated place
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Date
late 19th - early 20th century (1871 - 1930) -
Material and technique
six pieces of cotton, block-printed, mordant-dyed red, and dyed yellow, pink, and green; border; fringe; joined with stitching in cotton
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
47 x 35.5 cm (warp x weft)
ground fabric 1 15 / 19 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 2 14 / 20 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 3 15 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 4 17 / 17 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 5 16 / 16 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 6 17 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
border 33 x 2.5 cm (warp x weft) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.1222
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Catalogue text
A rectangular field with regular, diagonal rows of red ?grapes on a yellow ground. There is a border on three sides, with red flower-heads against a green ground, and fringes on the fourth side.
Two selvedges. In addition to the above measurements, there is a border sewn on that measures warp 33 cm., weft 2.5 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The green is likely to be light blue dyed over yellow. The textile has a merchant's stamp on it. It is of late 19th- or early 20th-century date.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
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. 1216 on p. 368 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 368 fig. 1216
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