Skirt Cloth Border
18th century (made)
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This cotton skirt-cloth (Thai: ‘pha nung’) was made on the Coromandel Coast of India for the Thai market. The design shows celestial adorers (‘thepanom’) depicted in red, with a centre-field trellis pattern with a blue ground. The cloth borders are particularly distinguished, with finely drawn mythical creatures (‘garuda’ and ‘kinnari’). The double-register end-panel has distinctively Thai-style motifs.
Skilful Indian textile workers made such cloth to order, using motifs and patterns specifically designed for the Thai market.
Skilful Indian textile workers made such cloth to order, using motifs and patterns specifically designed for the Thai market.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Painted mordant-dyed, painted resist-dyed and painted cotton |
| Brief description | Skirt cloth border (pha nung) of painted and dyed cotton, Coromandel Coast, 18th century |
| Physical description | Skirt cloth border (pha nung) of painted mordant-dyed, painted resist-dyed and painted cotton. With a Thepanom design in red, yellow and blue. |
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| Gallery label | PART OF A
SKIRT-CLOTH
Cotton, resist-dyed and mordant-dyed
Coromandel Coast, South-East India, for the Thai market
1800-50
IS.57-1991
Here the designs have been adapted for Thai taste by the same craftsmen who produced chintz for the western and domestic markets. The striking blue ground is decorated with heavenly worshippers, and the side borders show mythical beings, including the winged kinnara and eagle-headed Garuda.
Finely worked dyed fabrics like this were highly prized at the Thai court.(27/9/2013) |
| Production | Made for the Thai market. This shows the thepanom absorbed into textile design, in a distinctively Thai tumpal end-panel. |
| Subjects depicted | |
| Summary | This cotton skirt-cloth (Thai: ‘pha nung’) was made on the Coromandel Coast of India for the Thai market. The design shows celestial adorers (‘thepanom’) depicted in red, with a centre-field trellis pattern with a blue ground. The cloth borders are particularly distinguished, with finely drawn mythical creatures (‘garuda’ and ‘kinnari’). The double-register end-panel has distinctively Thai-style motifs. Skilful Indian textile workers made such cloth to order, using motifs and patterns specifically designed for the Thai market. |
| Bibliographic reference | John Guy, Woven Cargoes. Indian Textiles in the east, Thames and Hudson, 1998, pl. 68, pl. 174. |
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| Accession number | IS.57-1991 |
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| Record created | March 17, 2000 |
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