the bodice of a faience figurine from Knossos.
Minoan design (1500BCE), but not Minoan colors. (They liked bright - but they did use the sea-purple dye) This design is from a Snake Goddess figure. ___Copied from the bodice of the larger Snake Goddess faience figurine from Knossos - thrown into a hidden pit after the Mycenean Greeks took over the fallen palace at Knossos. Costume historian Mary Houston copied the details from the reproduction in the British Museum made by the excavators. ___The Minoans used, and traded, the sea-purple dye made from Murex snails. And they even used the pigment to paint crocus flowers on a transparent loose, open-fronted blouse (or underdress) in one of the frescos at Akrotiri on the ancient island of Thera*. The pigment had faded, but modern chemical analysis detects it. (*Now the a island of Santorini, after the largest volcano in 10,000 years buried the city in ash, somewhere between 1650BCE and 1450BCE. (Evidence is contradictory.) ) My version has textured patterns on a turquoise ground, and is a similar size compared to a bodice of a full-sized person. Linen* color matches: no match for the background, but the dark lines go well with Sphinx, and the violet color is picked up very well by the lightweight linen Dewberry, which also goes with the AmyVail pattern Radiant Orchid Vine. I might use the three fabrics together. ___*linens from fabricstoredotcom