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Textile fragment with stylized plants, tendrils, and flower-heads

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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

    Two wide bands flanked by narrow ones; one with stylized plant forms emerging from mounds shaped like half-medallions, as in Cat. no. 594 [EA1990.601], the other densely filled with tendrils which have leaves and flower-heads attached. This pattern is brown against a white ground. Two of the narrow bands have a row of diamonds, each filled with a cross. The diamonds are white against a brown ground. The other two bands have a row of crenellations which are reversible and can be read as white or red.

    The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface.

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