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Textile fragment with curving vines, quatrefoil, and rosette

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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 with curving vines from which flowers emerge. These are represented in side-view, and a quatrefoil and rosette are set between. The pattern is defined by white outlines against a red ground, with further details in deeper red or brown.

    Selvedge, with a single stitch remaining. The reverse is heavily saturated with red dye, but not with brown, which suggests that the mordant producing the latter was stamped first, and the brown details dyed, before a resist was applied and the red produced by immersion in a mordant bath.

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