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2018.37.28

Length of cotton cloth, indigo dyed. It is very deep indigo in colour, otherwise plain and undecorated. [AF [EFCF project] 11/6/2018]

2018.37.28

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Collection type
Object
Description
Length of cotton cloth, indigo dyed. It is very deep indigo in colour, otherwise plain and undecorated. [AF [EFCF project] 11/6/2018]
Geographical reference
Oman
Asia > Western Asia > Oman
Date / Period
Date made: 1985
Date collected
1985
Acquisition information
Donated: 03/03/2016
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions
Length x Width 2630 x 840 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2018.37.28 Other numbers: O1
Research and responses

More on indigo production and dyeing in Oman can be found in Indigo in textiles of the Arab World by Jenny Balfour-Paul, Curzon Press, 1997, esp. pp. 65-69, 139 - 141. [AF [EFCF project] 11/6/2018]

Jenny Balfour-Paul describes the indigo dyeing industry at Ibri in Indigo in the Arab World: "at Ibri there were over twenty dyers at work prior to 1979, but within ten years this number had dwindled to three, and in the mid 1980s the only surviving dyer was Salim bin Rashid al-Sawwad, who inherited the trade from his father. Indigo dyeing had always taken place in the attractive old part of the suq, near the fort." Balfour-Paul, J., 1997. Indigo in the Arab World. Richmond: Curzon, p.97 [JMC 11/09/2020]

For a series of photographs of Salim bin Rashid al-Sawwad, the 'last indigo dyer of Ibri', taken by Jenny Balfour-Paul in 1985, see 2018.137.1117-.1129; 2018.137.1921-.1924 and 2018.137.2021-.2025. [JMC 13/05/2025]

Associated publications
Balfour-Paul, Jenny, Indigo in the Arab World, Routledge, 1997 [AF [EFCF project] 23/8/2019] Balfour-Paul, Jenny, Indigo: Egyptian Mummies to Blue Jeans by , British Museum Press, 1998 [AF [EFCF project] 23/8/2019]

Search terms: Textile, Dye

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