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Textile fragment with stalk, leaves, and Persian-style script

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    A wide design area shows a large, continuous and undulating plant stalk, with leaves emerging on one side only, but with small shoots on both sides; this is set against a background with a small abstract pattern. In addition there are two border bands at right angles to each other, with stars and cartouches containing script imitation derived from Persian. The pattern is red against a white ground.

    Selvedge. The block size for the continuous design is 11 cm. x 8 cm., for the border band 14 cm. x 4 cm. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface.

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