Square tabby-woven cotton textile created by appliquè in white, green, yellow, and light and mid brown. Additional decoration consists of embroidered detailing in blue, turquoise, pink, orange, red, and white. The design consists of a centre panel surrounded with 2 borders. The embroidered panel contains a grid, with crossings marked by star-shapes, and scrolled motifs. The inner border is also decorated with the embroidered scroll motifs, and framed by thin white, green and yellow borders. The outer border is plain mid brown, and creates a narrow border around the white backing on the reverse.
textile (function unknown); textile
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