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Description
These are two square-shaped fragments of plain woven silk patterned with the clamp-resist dyeing technique. MAS.876 has two confronting geese and a quarter of a roundel; MAS.877 has only half a goose but a larger area of quatrefoil, and one selvedge, 0.3 cm wide. By placing the two pieces together, Stein was able to reconstruct the pattern. It consists of two motifs: a dominant large roundel with encircled rosettes and a narrower inner roundel, enclosing four paired geese; and a four-petalled flower in the centre, and the other secondary quatrefoil. The repeat in the warp direction is about 56.6 cm but it is unclear in the weft direction.
The textile was dyed with two colours: orange for the geese, flowers and quatrefoil, and blue for the ground, the large roundel, the little pearl roundel and the leaves inside the roundel. Some green leaves of the quatrefoil were made by painting a yellow colour on the blue leaves. Another fragment from the same textile (but without geese) is in t… (See Merlin record for full description)
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