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# Hip-wrapper

Cotton hip-wrapper decorated in the chintz, or resist-dyed, technique, using madder (red) and indigo (blue), sometimes in combination. The central field is decorated with a floral pattern based on French 'bizarre' designs, while at the edges and the ends are decorative elements drawn from local tradition.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1799 CE

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