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Textile fragment with vine, trefoils, and flowers

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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 band with a large, continuous vine and red trefoils and flowers. The ground is white with a narrow, blue border containing a line of white dots. A similar dotted line fills parts of the vine. The band is set against a solid red background. In addition there is the beginning of a blue and white pattern.

    A carefully sewn rolled seam joins the two fragments along their selvedges. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface, especially for the blue.

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