Length of Fabric for Clothing

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This length of fabric with intact selvedges is decorated with rows of poppies on a ground of shimmering silver-wrapped thread. Textiles like this example, with repeating patterns of formally arranged, naturalistic flowers on a blank background, were produced in great numbers in Mughal India beginning in the seventeenth century.

Length of Fabric for Clothing, Metal wrapped thread, silk; twill weave, brocaded

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