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Textile fragment with tendrils and linked ovals

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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

    The main field has a pattern of tendrils surrounding linked ovals. The tendrils are white on a blue ground, while the ovals are white, blue, and red. In addition there are narrow bands with hearts, cartouches, and tendrils, in blue, white and red, and a red band with an abstract white and red design. The bands are followed by a floral design with small, white tendrils and red flowers on a blue ground.

    Selvedge at right angles to the bands. For the red, the reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface, but there is more for the blue.

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