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Dress Fabric

1870s (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Dress fabric of silk ikat. Silk warp and weft, full loom with red and white selvedges. In yellow, purple, red, blue. green. pale pink and darker pink. Central bold S-shaped motif in yellow with small red and blue patches on a purple ground. On either side the purple interlocks with pale pink, then the pattern continues with large red pomegranate shapes, both cut off incomplete, but one showing half a yellow and blue centre.


Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
Silk ikat
Brief description
Dress fabric of silk ikat, made in Turkestan, 1870s
Physical description
Dress fabric of silk ikat. Silk warp and weft, full loom with red and white selvedges. In yellow, purple, red, blue. green. pale pink and darker pink. Central bold S-shaped motif in yellow with small red and blue patches on a purple ground. On either side the purple interlocks with pale pink, then the pattern continues with large red pomegranate shapes, both cut off incomplete, but one showing half a yellow and blue centre.
Dimensions
  • Length: 31.75in
  • Width: 17.625in
  • Length: 81cm
  • Width: 44.5cm
Credit line
Given by Miss Lynda Hillyer
Object history
Registered File number 1989/1442.
Production
Central Asia
Bibliographic reference
Larsen, Jack Lenor. The Dyers Art: Ikat, Batik, Plangi. New York, 1976, p. 172
Collection
Accession number
T.368-1989

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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