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Textile fragment with diamond-shapes, and squares with rosettes

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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

    Parallel bands, one of diamond shapes with a small four-lobed ring inside, lined on either side by a running s-shape, as in Cat. no. 150 [EA1990.158]; the other with squares filled with different rosette shapes and framed by a row of dots, similar to Cat. no. 151 [EA1990.159]. Fragmentary design of large rosettes, and at right angles to the bands a row of running s-shapes, possibly the beginning of a band as the one of diamonds above. The resist generally defines the pattern, the background is blue.

    The surface shows much indigo dye in the resist areas, and the back is heavily saturated.

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