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# Hip-wrapper

Cotton hip-wrapper decorated in the chintz, or resist-dyed, technique, using madder for the red colouring. The central field is decorated with a dense floral scroll, repeated in rows the whole length of the field. At the ends are the usual hanging triangular decorative elements.

- **Kind:** artefact
- **Date:** 1700–1899 CE

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