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Cloth with flower sprigs and probably Arabic 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

    Complete cloth with borders of printed tab shapes at either narrow end. The central field has a floral medallion against a red ground covered with flower sprigs repeated throughout; on all four sides are bands with red flowers, partly in medallions. The bands are separated by narrow, brown bands. At one narrow end a strip was inserted with cartouches containing an inscription.

    Sewn together from three widths of fabric. The pattern was printed after the fabric had been sewn together. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The first thread count refers to the original fabric, the second to the inserted strip with inscriptions. This strip is sewn in with black cotton thread. The script on the inserted strip seems to be Arabic but cannot be read at present.

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