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Textile fragment with linked rosettes and leaves

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    • currently in research collection

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  • The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries by Ruth Barnes and Marianne Ellis

    The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries

    Blue and red rosettes are embroidered in double running stitch outlines, arranged in straight rows. Between each row is a line of light- or dark-green triangular ?trees, embroidered in open cross stitch worked as a filling stitch. There are the remains of a single line of stitching as a border, as well as a line of spaced crosses.

    There is a selvedge and a rolled hem along two sides.

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