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Textile fragment with flowers, rosettes, and squares

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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

    Four-petalled flowers and single dots are arranged regularly to form a grid of squares, inside each is either an eight-petalled rosette with a central dot or a cluster of four small squares which can be read as a larger square with a blue cross inside. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.

    Two seams run at right angles to each other, using blue thread. Additional mending with white thread. The longer seam adds fabric that does not quite match, but has the same pattern as Cat. no. 87 [EA1990.95].

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