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Textile fragment with quatrefoils and medallions

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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

    Fragment of a large floral design, white with blue and red details on a red ground, followed by bands of red and white, small wheels, and a wider band with blue, white, and red quatrefoils set into medallions. This is sewn on to a smaller fragment with the same designs of bands.

    Two fragments of the same fabric are sewn together with an open seam, and additional stitching continuous along the side of the longer fragment. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. As for Cat. no. 1042 [EA1990.1049] and the following fragments, the resist may have been added by hand.

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