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Textile fragment with rectangle containing squares

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    A rectangle is filled with squares outlined in red and dark blue close counted herringbone stitches; every second square has remnants of brown herringbone embroidery. Along all four sides there is a brown border worked in double running stitch, now badly deteriorated.

    An overcast hem on three sides, as well as two open seams.

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