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museums and features a variety or relics, such as eighteenth-century copperplate printed fabrics and lush floral nineteenth-century block printed furnishing fabrics. Other documents found in the archive include intricate toiles, ancient artisan-skilled woven textiles, hand-embroidered paisleys and an extensive collection of rare hand-block tiles. Kravet Inc. made parts of the archive available to the public through an exhibit featured at the
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