Not currently on display at the V&A

Board-Mounted Swatches

c.1872 (made)
Place of origin

Sixteen swatches cut from Indian white muslin turban cloths mounted on a card board


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Brief description
Swatches of Indian white muslin turban cloths, mounted on a board for photo-litho reproduction
Physical description
Sixteen swatches cut from Indian white muslin turban cloths mounted on a card board
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. Originally mounted for photo-litho reproduction in John Forbes Watson's Second Series of The Textile Manufactures of India (1873), Vol.1-64, nos.7-14.
Bibliographic reference
Watson, J. Forbes, et al. Collection of Specimens and Illustrations of the Textile Manufactures of India. Second Series, India Museum, 1874.
Collection
Accession number
7830(IS)

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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