Robe
ca. 1910 (made)
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This one-piece, wrap-around garment, called 'kushuthara', was the most prestigious type of apparel for women in the 20th century. It is made of three joined panels of cotton warp with supplementary weft in wild silk. This style of dress originates in the Kurto district in north central Bhutan and its patterning or kushu is found on other textiles from the same region.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton patterned with thrima-woven silk and cotton threads |
| Brief description | Portion of a woman's robe (kushuthara) of embroidered cotton with silk and cotton, Bhutan, ca. 1910 |
| Physical description | Portion of a woman's robe (kushuthara) formed of three lengths of coarse unbleached cotton sewn together. Parallel stripes and a wide selvedge at each side are woven in red, green and yellow silk and blue cotton. The pattern of diamond-shaped geometric devices is worked by the thrima weave technique of wrapping and twining supplementary wefts of terra cotta silk and indigo blue cotton. At each end is a deep border of four broad horizontal bands of red and blue triangles and diamonds, separated by narrower bands of the swastika key pattern. With a short wrap-fringe at each end. |
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| Credit line | Given by Sir C. A. Bell KCIE, CMG |
| Object history | Given by Sir C A Bell, K.C.I.E., C.M.G. 1933. Given to the donor by Maharaja of Bhutan in 1910. |
| Production | Probably from East Central Bhutan |
| Summary | This one-piece, wrap-around garment, called 'kushuthara', was the most prestigious type of apparel for women in the 20th century. It is made of three joined panels of cotton warp with supplementary weft in wild silk. This style of dress originates in the Kurto district in north central Bhutan and its patterning or kushu is found on other textiles from the same region. |
| Bibliographic reference | Myers D.K. and Bean S, From the Land of the Thunder Dragon, Textile Arts of Bhutan, London, 1994, pp.95, 227. |
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| Accession number | IM.19-1933 |
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| Record created | August 31, 2004 |
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