Sampler with pattern examples
Details
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Title
Sampler with pattern examples
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Associated place
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Date
19th century (1801 - 1900) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with mordant, and dyed red and purple
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
151 x 84.5 cm (length x width)
along length/width 25 / 21 threads/cm (thread count) -
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.
EA1990.1196
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Catalogue text
A complete sampler printed throughout with pattern examples of different blocks. The designs are of various sizes, either red, purple, or a combination of both.
The total number of blocks used is more than one hundred and fifty. The sampler is of 19th-century date, as is obvious from some of the designs. However, certain patterns are also present in fragments of much earlier 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. 1192 on p. 360 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 360 fig. 1192 & vol. i pl. 4
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