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The willow silk saree and jacket drawn from the archives of The Registry of Sarees underlines oriental influence on Indian textiles.Oriental art is often interchangeably used with the terms Eastern or Asian art and it refers to the historic and contemporary motifs originating from various Asian cultures and reflecting on the society in which it was produced. In this particular case, the patterns were used on wall paper in Europe before being adopted into patterning for Indian textiles.