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Kamkhwab

ca. 1855 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Varanasi (made)
Uttar Pradesh (made)

Cut piece of textile, cream silk brocaded with gold-wrapped thread, with narrow red borders. The design consists of regular rosettes brocaded in gold-wrapped thread in a field of a small leaf repeat, brocaded in gold-wrapped thread.


Object details

Categories
Textiles
Parasol Foundation Trust Indian Textiles Cataloguing Project
India Museum
Object type
Kamkhwab
Materials and techniques
Woven silk, brocaded with gold-wrapped thread
Gold-Wrapped Thread
Silk (Textile)
Woven
Brocaded
Brief description
Piece of kamkhwab (kincob), silk brocaded with gold-wrapped thread, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, ca. 1855
Physical description
Cut piece of textile, cream silk brocaded with gold-wrapped thread, with narrow red borders. The design consists of regular rosettes brocaded in gold-wrapped thread in a field of a small leaf repeat, brocaded in gold-wrapped thread.
Dimensions
  • Length: 321cm
  • Width: 75cm
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. 1880 Register Entry: [ROOM 8. Case 60.] '0822. "KINCOB." Piece of, gold diaper on white ground; Benares. 3,250'. Slip book 3250: 'Kincob Piece / Kincob / Benares / Golden Jam Dany / 55 / White Silk & Gold flowers'. Swatches from the original textile appear in John Forbes Watson's Second Series of The Textile Manufactures of India (1874) vol.401-458, no.406.
Subjects depicted
Leaves
Rosettes
Bibliographic reference
Watson, J. Forbes, et al. Collection of Specimens and Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Second Series, India Museum, 1874. 'KINCOB / Length, 5 Yds. 2 1/2 Ins.; Width, 29 1/2 Ins.; Weight, 3 lb. 11 oz. 9 dr. Price per Yard £5 10s. / BENARES. / NO.406, SECOND SERIES. "3250".'
Other number
3250 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
0822(IS)

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
Record URL
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