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Textile fragment with bands of stylized plants, rosettes, and tendrils

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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 band of stylized plants emerging from half-medallion-shaped mounds, similar to Cat. no. 596 [EA1990.603], white against a red ground, and flanked on either side by a band with small rosettes and tendrils. This pattern is white against a brown ground. Additional blocks are placed next to each other without necessarily matching in design. These are dyed red or brown and are filled with white tendrils and flowers.

    Selvedge; the bands set at right angles to it. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The width of the block filled with tendrils and flowers was 11 cm.; a similar juxtaposition of block designs is illustrated by Gittinger [1982: 44].

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