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Textile fragment with flowers

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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 wide, red band with white flowers turns a corner at right angles. The flowers appear in side-view. On one side of the band are narrow bands of chevrons and a band of indistinct red and brown shapes; on the other side is the beginning of a red pattern on white, set off with a narrow border of a continuous vine, white on red.

    Selvedge. The reverse shows very little dye saturation. The band of indistinct shapes is probably similar to a row of linked crowns appearing in a fragment in the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan [Kelsey 94139]. The original card had the comment '18th-century'.

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