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Textile fragment with rosettes, squares, and dots

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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

    Narrow bands of eight-petalled rosettes, clusters of nine very small squares, and dots, alternating with bands showing a continuous vine with separate leaves and tendrils. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.

    Three pieces sewn together; the largest has a selvedge with remains of a rolled hem. Surface stitching as well as open seams. The design bands of the two smaller fragment are sewn to the large one at a right angle. The very small remains of a forth fragment appear on the edge opposite the selvedge.

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