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Textile fragment with carnations, rosettes, and tulips

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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

    A border band which includes a corner; it shows carnations, rosettes, and tulips [bell-shaped flowers], as well as leaves similar to Cat. no. 441 [EA1990.448], but the cloth here is much finer. An additional design field has trefoils, made up from three circles. The pattern is dark against a light background, with some rosettes in yellow.

    The fragment is sewn together from three pieces, with a selvedge along the long seam of the central piece. This seam has been sewn prior to printing. The reverse is less saturated with dye than the surface. The design is Ottoman, probably of 17th- or 18th-century date.

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