Mashru
ca.1851 (made)
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Fragments of a length of mashru: warp faced in silk, hidden weft in cotton. Discontiuous supplementary weft in silk (brocading) in design of small, single green and yellow stems each with three blossoms in red and white on a dark purple ground.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts. (Some alternative part names are also shown below)
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| Materials and techniques | Warp-faced silk and cotton |
| Brief description | Textile in two fragments, woven cotton and silk (mashru), dark purple ground with small flowers in green and red, Aurangabad, c. 1851; Textiles |
| Physical description | Fragments of a length of mashru: warp faced in silk, hidden weft in cotton. Discontiuous supplementary weft in silk (brocading) in design of small, single green and yellow stems each with three blossoms in red and white on a dark purple ground. |
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| Gallery label | LENGTH OF MASHRU
Woven silk and cotton
Aurangabad, Maharashtra
c. 1851
This length of flower-patterned mashru, a speciality of Aurangabad, was displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was one of the first textiles purchased by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A). The British designer Owen Jones included its pattern in his 1856 publication The Grammar of Ornament, which became a seminal text on the principles of design.(01/08/2017) |
| Object history | Purchased from 1851 Exhibition for £3.50 (£3.10s). |
| Historical context | This textile was illustrated in Henry Hardy Cole's 1874 Catalogue of the Indian collection at the South Kensington Museum as an example of good design. It was also featured in Owen Jones's book, The Grammar of Ornament, (London, 1856). |
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| Bibliographic reference | Catalogue of the objects of Indian art exhibited in the South Kensington Museum / by H.H. Cole. London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall, 1874
p.249
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| Collection | |
| Accession number | 798-1852 |
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| Record created | July 29, 2008 |
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