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Textile
- Place of origin:
Varanasi (made)
- Date:
ca. 1867 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown
- Materials and Techniques:
Silk, gold-wrapped and silver-wrapped thread, woven
- Museum number:
7231(IS)
- Gallery location:
In Storage
Physical description
Fragment of a wrapped garment, reversible. One side is magenta with squares of gold-wrapped thread containing green spots; the reverse green with squares of gold-wrapped thread containing magenta spots; a deep end border and side borders of gold-wrapped and silver-wrapped thread, the end border also features alternate stripes of magenta, green and gold-wrapped and silver-wrapped thread.
Place of Origin
Varanasi (made)
Date
ca. 1867 (made)
Artist/maker
Unknown
Materials and Techniques
Silk, gold-wrapped and silver-wrapped thread, woven
Dimensions
Length: 278 cm, Width: 138 cm
Object history note
Transferred from India Museum 1879. Slip book 6369: 'Scarf / Loongee Doorookhee / Benares / Price Rs. 125 / 1867 / Original nos. 3703 / of different colours on the opposite sides'
Historical context note
The complete object would have been intended for use as a garment, clothing.
Descriptive line
Textiles, fragment of a reversible silk garment, Varanasi, ca. 1867
Materials
Gold-wrapped thread; Silver-wrapped thread; Silk
Techniques
Woven
Subjects depicted
Spots; Squares
Categories
Clothing; Textiles; Parasol Foundation Trust Indian Textiles Cataloguing Project; India Museum
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
