Design
1881 (made)
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Eight designs for Kashmir shawls, drawn in black and white, with colour notes on two of them. Mainly showing floral arabesques and long, swirling cones.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Drawn in ink on paper |
| Brief description | Designs from a shawl weaver's pattern book, ink on paper, Srinagar, 1881 |
| Physical description | Eight designs for Kashmir shawls, drawn in black and white, with colour notes on two of them. Mainly showing floral arabesques and long, swirling cones. |
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| Content description | Eight designs for Kashmir shawls. |
| Credit line | Given by C. Stanley Clarke, Esq. |
| Object history | The designs, mainly floral arabesques and long swirling cones typical of this late period of shawl design influenced by European entrepreneurs, are by a pattern-maker (naqqash) and the colour notes by an assistant (tarahguru). They were acquired initially by Caspar Purdon Clarke (subsequently the first Keeper of the V&A's Indian Section and later Director of the museum) for his private collection during his official purchasing tour of India in 1880-82, then presented to the Museum by his son, Caspar Stanley Clarke, in 1924. |
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| Accession number | IM.32-1924 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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