Textile
Cooper Hewitt

Textile

ca. 1800

Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
Cooper Hewitt

Regular arrangement of "paisley" style motifs in bright colors. The red color was printed using the "lapis" technique, which combines both a mordant and a discharging agent.

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