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Textile fragment with grid of quatrefoils and serrated crosses

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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 continuous grid design of diagonally linked quatrefoils and snowflake designs; the quatrefoils have a small rosette at the centre and are alternatively red and blue, the snowflake pattern is always blue. In addition there is a red band with white and blue flowers and rosettes, the flowers with long petals, and a narrow band of red squares with white frames, each filled with a rosette.

    The reverse shows less dye saturation for the red. The size of the block used for the continuous grid design was 9.5 cm. x 8.5 cm. It is uncertain whether the two narrow bands were printed from a single block; both were stamped with a block that was 13 cm. long.

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