Turban Cloth

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Coimbatore (made)

Complete silk and cotton turban cloth, black cotton and yellow silk warps in the field, red silk wefts. Side borders have red and yellow silk and metal-wrapped thread warps. End borders of metal-wrapped thread. Dark red field with yellow squares, borders with circular design within squares. Floral motif in gold-wrapped thread in one corner of the field.

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Categories	Textiles Men's Clothes Hats & Headwear Parasol Foundation Trust Indian Textiles Cataloguing Project India Museum
Object type	Turban cloth
Materials and techniques	Silk, cotton, gold-wrapped and other metal-wrapped thread, woven Silk (Textile) Cotton (Textile) Metal-Wrapped Thread Gold-Wrapped Thread Woven
Brief description	Textile, turban cloth, silk and cotton, dark red with yellow checks and gold borders, Coimbatore, ca. 1850-1879.
Physical description	Complete silk and cotton turban cloth, black cotton and yellow silk warps in the field, red silk wefts. Side borders have red and yellow silk and metal-wrapped thread warps. End borders of metal-wrapped thread. Dark red field with yellow squares, borders with circular design within squares. Floral motif in gold-wrapped thread in one corner of the field.
Dimensions	Length: 195cm Width: 190cm
Marks and inscriptions	'MADRAS PRODUCTS. LXXVII. No. 2 ROOMAL OR TURBAN, ruby coloured silk, with yellow lines and gold thread border, value Rupees (22-8-0) twenty-two and Annas eight; manufactured at Coimbatore, forwarded by the Coimbatore Local Committee, property of the H.E.I.C.' (Typed on paper label attached to one corner of the textile ) '28' (Hand-written on paper label attached to one corner of the textile ) (Small paper label with hand-written Telugu inscription (undeciphered) in the corner of the textile)
Object history	Transferred from India Museum 1879.
Historical context	Intended for use as a garment, headwear.
Subjects depicted	Squares Flowers
Other number	3047 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	5721(IS)

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Record created	June 25, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O453911/turban-cloth-unknown/

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