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Textile fragment with vines and flowers

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    • First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads

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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 bands with continuous vines, both white with fine, purple outlines. One is set on a red ground, the other on blue. The vine of the red band turns onto itself, with blue leaves and a flower emerging. The vine on blue ground has small red flowers or berries attached, grouped in clusters of three, as well as leaves emerging. The bands are separated by narrow, red and blue borders.

    It seems that the fine outlines were first stamped with a mordant, and then the mordant for the red and the resist for the blue were added, with dye immersions between the applications.

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