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ca. 1970 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Blue and white cottons such as this originated in rural areas of China, away from the urban mainstream. Resist-dyed textiles come from several different provinces of China, their patterns being produced by covering a portion of the cotton with a substance that resists the liquid colouring matter when the cloth is immersed in the dye bath. When the resist is washed off, the design is revealed in white against a blue ground. This piece shows one popular design of spots and swirls.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Resist-dyed cotton |
| Brief description | Length of cotton, white resist dyeing on a blue cotton ground, China, ca.1970 |
| Physical description | Cotton cloth with a design of solid scrolling shapes and small dots forming circles and diamonds resisted in white against a blue ground. The resisting substance is likely to have been wax, as used by non-Han people living in southwestern China. |
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| Credit line | Addis Bequest |
| Object history | These blue and white cotton pieces (FE.97 to O-1983) were loosely wrapped in paper from the Peking Arts and Crafts Shop and it may be that all of them were purchased there rather than in the areas of manufacture. Registered File number 1965/3344. |
| Summary | Blue and white cottons such as this originated in rural areas of China, away from the urban mainstream. Resist-dyed textiles come from several different provinces of China, their patterns being produced by covering a portion of the cotton with a substance that resists the liquid colouring matter when the cloth is immersed in the dye bath. When the resist is washed off, the design is revealed in white against a blue ground. This piece shows one popular design of spots and swirls. |
| Bibliographic reference | Wilson, Verity, 'A Diplomat's Collection: The Chinese Textiles of Sir John Addis' in Arts of Asia vol. 33 no. 2, 2003 pp.90-101, Plate 18 |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | FE.97H-1983 |
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| Record created | February 12, 2000 |
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