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Dress Fabric

18th century (made)

Fragment of cotton, with a chain pattern, knotted at intervals, and intertwining with a flower and leaf meander, crosses a group of narrow stripes.

Object details

Category
Object type
Materials and techniques
painted and dyed cotton
Brief description
painted cotton, 1700s, East Indian; On a card with T.307-1919
Physical description
Fragment of cotton, with a chain pattern, knotted at intervals, and intertwining with a flower and leaf meander, crosses a group of narrow stripes.
Dimensions
  • Height: 23cm
  • Width: 11.8cm
Bibliographic reference
Irwin, John and Katherine Brett, Origins of Chintz, London, 1970. With a catalogue of Indo-European cotton-paintings in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. ISBN 112900534. p. 127, cat. no. 182
Collection
Accession number
T.308-1919

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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