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Textile fragment with medallions, flowers, and hearts

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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 continuous design of white medallions and flowers on a red ground, followed by a narrow band with small, white spirals, and a wider band with stylized, white plants and heart shapes on a red ground. Finally, there is a narrow band with small, linked leaves or plants, white and outlined in brown, against a pale blue ground. The continuous design is similar to Cat. no. 634 [EA1990.640].

    A finely sewn seam along one side of the fragment contains a very narrow strip of additional material of the same fabric. The reverse shows slightly less dye saturation than the surface. There is no evidence for the use of a resist to apply the blue. The size of the block used was 9.5 cm. x 9.5 cm.

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