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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and stars, probably from a garment

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    • First floor | Room 30 | Mediterranean

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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 grid design of very narrow bands, white with brown dots and cartouches, as well as rosettes at the intersections. The background is red, and the squares created have either quatrefoils or stars in their centres.

    The fragment is made up from five pieces, all sewn together with fine stitching in flat seams, in order to add a wedge of fabric. The shape of tailoring suggests that the textile was made to be a garment. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. Two of the pieces have a selvedge.

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