Textile

ca. 1855 (made)
Place of origin

Part of a turban cloth, block-printed cotton in black and red design of small flowers, Saidapet, Tamil Nadu, c.1855

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Brief description
Part of a turban cloth, block-printed cotton in black and red design of small flowers, Saidapet, Tamil Nadu, c.1855
Object history
Transferred from India Museum 1879. Swatches from the original textile appear in John Forbes Watson's The Textile Manufactures of India, vol.I, no.30.
Associated object
7608(IS) (Part)
Bibliographic reference
Watson, J. Forbes, and Great Britain. India Office. The Textile Manufactures of India. India Office, 1866. 'No.30 / INDIAN FABRICS. / TURBAN. / Cotton: coarse material. / Worn by the Lubbays, an industrious class of fishermen and Mahomedan merchants on the Madras coast. / Length 15 yards; width 9 inches; weight 9 1/2 oz. / From SYDAPET in MADRAS. / Prov. No.166 [illegible]'
Collection
Accession number
IND.LOST.1381

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