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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3953518, member: 8267"]The last photo in the last series is the most informative on the stitching. Click on it and it will load in another window, where it can be enlarged. The blue figures are worked primarily in a closely aligned chain stitch, like Kashmiri kashida, and the white figures in couched stitches.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the side of the textile where the chain stitching goes over the seams (at least the seams between the center panel and the narrow borders) is meant to be the front. In other words, photo #2 is the back of the textile, and the last photo is the front. But it is difficult to understand the layout from the photos provided.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 3953518, member: 8267"]The last photo in the last series is the most informative on the stitching. Click on it and it will load in another window, where it can be enlarged. The blue figures are worked primarily in a closely aligned chain stitch, like Kashmiri kashida, and the white figures in couched stitches. I think the side of the textile where the chain stitching goes over the seams (at least the seams between the center panel and the narrow borders) is meant to be the front. In other words, photo #2 is the back of the textile, and the last photo is the front. But it is difficult to understand the layout from the photos provided.[/QUOTE]
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