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... that Byzantine silk designs include the tree of life, winged horses, and imaginary beasts, along with fashionable images of hunting and quadrigas (pictured)?
...that hand knotted Persian style rugs with Mexican indigenous designs are made in Temoaya, Mexico?
... that invoking paduasoy silk for 18th-century local colour has got historical novelists into errors about a Paduan origin?

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