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Textile fragment with Persian-inspired script and interlace

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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

    White bands with red inscriptions on either side of a wide band with red half-rosettes and filled with an interlace of tendrils, flowers, and leaves. In addition there is the beginning of a design field with a pictorial scene which is too fragmentary to be able to read it.

    Selvedge parallel to a band with inscriptions, and the remains of a seam sewn with blue thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The inscription is derived from Persian, but is printed in reverse.

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