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Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and diamond-shapes

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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

    Rows of eight-petalled rosettes with a small circle at the centre of each, alternating with squares which hold a stepped diamond inside. The pattern is red, the background light.

    Selvedge; the pattern is blurred on the reverse. The design may be compared to three fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim, although the similarities are general rather than specific (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 22, 23, & 41). The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.

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