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Textile fragment with hamsa, or geese, and quatrefoils

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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 geese encircling a medallion, with additional leaves arranged as quatrefoils. The outlines of the design are white, the geese, medallions, and leaves are red and brown, and the background is pink.

    Blue stitching to mend a small hole, as well as a black seam. The reverse shows more dye saturation than the surface. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant for the pink was alizarin with purpurin, from Rubia tinctorum L., while the red and brown was probably produced with a combination of colorants. Both morindone and alizarin with purpurin were found present, the first from a variety of morinda root, the second from Rubia tinctorum L. Possibly 15th century; see Cat. no. 797 [EA1990.804] for radiocarbon result.

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