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Textile fragment with tendrils and rosettes

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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

    A continuous field with large, curving tendrils, each ending in a rosette with twelve petals. In addition, there are small leaves and flowers. The design is defined by white lines against a red ground.

    Two pieces are sewn together, with some attention paid to a continuation of the pattern. There are two types of stitching; the fine thread is cotton, the coarse one is flax. The red is badly faded where it has been exposed to light. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface.

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