Textile fragment with rows of red and blue bands with vines and Arabic inscription in naskh script. This example combines indigo and mordant dyeing to create a textile that is red, blue, and white. The overall evidence shows that the fabrics were first mordant dyed to obtain reds and then dyed in indigo to achieve blue. The continuous vine pattern is blue, which means that the background was covered with resist, although it is more common for the resist to define the pattern. This technical shift apparently occurred not earlier than the sixteenth century.