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Textile fragment with tendrils, flower-heads, small flowers, and arches

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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 narrow bands with rows of rosettes and small, linked arches, white against a brown ground; these are set on either side of a wider band with separate tendrils and flower-heads. A second wide band has thick, swirling tendrils and small flowers, and a single brown rosette imposed on it. The two wide bands otherwise have their designs in white against a red ground.

    Selvedge; the design bands are at right angles to it. The block used for the widest band had a size of 10.5 cm. x 10.5 cm. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface.

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