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        "tombstone": "Cover for a Jain Manuscript, c. 1800. Western India, Gujarat. Silk: satin weave; embroidery, polychrome silk, gold fil\u00e9, flat metal strip; overall: 26.4 x 13.7 cm (10 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1925.494",
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        "title": "Cover for a Jain Manuscript",
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        "creation_date_earliest": 1795,
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        "department": "Textiles",
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        "type": "Embroidery",
        "measurements": "Overall: 26.4 x 13.7 cm (10 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)",
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                    "title": "Needles, Dye-Pots, and Looms: Textile Traditions in India",
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        "description": "When closed, the horizontal stack of Jain manuscript pages is protected by firm covers on the top and bottom. A donor may commission a luxurious textile to place over or wrap the sacred text to honor it. Textiles with repeated floral plant patterns\u2014these appear to be roses\u2014were popularized at the imperial Mughal court during the mid-1600s, after which they spread throughout India.",
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                "citation": "Pandey, Vishwanath. <em>The Orient: The World of Jainism : Jaina History, Art, Literature, Philosophy and Religion.</em> Bombay: Pandey, 1976.",
                "page_number": "p. 6-12",
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            {
                "citation": "Shah, Umakant Premanand. T<em>reasures of Jaina Bhan\u0323d\u0323a\u0304ras</em>. Ahmedabad: L.D. Institute of Indology, 1978.",
                "page_number": "pl. 101-102, 165-166",
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            },
            {
                "citation": "Crill, Rosemary. <em>Indian Embroidery</em>. London: V &amp; A Publications, 1999.",
                "page_number": "Pl. 59, pg. 68",
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            {
                "citation": "Common Thread: Books. HALI; the international journal of Oriental carpets and textiles. London: Oguz Press. Issue 218 Winter 2023",
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