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  • Palampores: India’s Dyers Discover Mordants
    Panels of cotton cloth with a Tree of Life handprinted were called Palampores. When batting, a back and quilting were added, they became bedcovers. The Far Eastern Indians changed the face of fabric when they discovered mordant dyeing that made colors handpainted on cotton fast. Everyone in Western Europe and Britain wanted "painted" cloth once they found out about it in the early 1600's.



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