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Turban Cloth

c.1867 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Chanderi (made)
Madhya Pradesh (made)

Pieces of fine white starched muslin with silver-gilt bands in the end. The principle end fragment retains a large red stamp of a lion and snake in a circle, indicative of Chanderi production.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Clothing
Parasol Foundation Trust Indian Textiles Cataloguing Project
India Museum
Hats & Headwear
Object type
Turban cloth
Parts
This object consists of 3 parts.

  • Textile
  • Fragment
  • Textile
Materials and techniques
Muslin
Cotton (Textile)
Metal-Wrapped Thread
Woven
Brief description
Turban cloth of white muslin with silver-gilt bands in either end, Chanderi, Madhya Pradesh, c.1867
Physical description
Pieces of fine white starched muslin with silver-gilt bands in the end. The principle end fragment retains a large red stamp of a lion and snake in a circle, indicative of Chanderi production.
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. India Museum Slip book entry 5587: 'Turban / Chunderee, Central India / 1867 / Original nos.13 / white muslin, gold ends / Price £1-1-2'. A photo-lithograph and accompanying swatch of the original textile appear in the Second Series of John Forbes Watson's The Textile Manufactures of India, Vol.1-64, No.7.
Associated object
7830(IS) (Part)
Bibliographic reference
Watson, J. Forbes, et al. Collection of Specimens and Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Second Series, India Museum, 1874. 'TURBANS. / 7.PRINCIPAL END OF PIECE. - 7A. OPPOSITE END OF PIECE. / From CHANDARI. / Length, 29 Yds. 10 Ins.; Width, 11 1/2 Ins.; Weight, 7 oz. 14 dr.; Price, £1 1s. 2d.'.
Other number
5587 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
7877:1/(IS)

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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