Textile
ca. 1850 (made)
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Fragments of a length of woven silk, with a flower design brocaded with stripes of gold and coloured silk thread on red silk ground. The elaborate type of pattern shown here is called meenakari (enamelling).
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 3 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Woven silk, gold-wrapped thread and silk thread brocade |
| Brief description | Textile, fragments, woven silk, gold-wrapped thread brocade, Varanasi, ca. 1850 |
| Physical description | Fragments of a length of woven silk, with a flower design brocaded with stripes of gold and coloured silk thread on red silk ground. The elaborate type of pattern shown here is called meenakari (enamelling). |
| Marks and inscriptions | (Both Rasulpura and Gaighat are regions of Varanasi.)
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| Object history | Exhibited at the Great Exhibition, 1851. |
| Historical context | A sample of this fabric was included in John Forbes Watson's second series of 'The Textile Manufactures and Costumes of the People of India', published in 1873-77. |
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| Accession number | 744B-1852 |
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| Record created | July 28, 2008 |
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