Rumal

20th century (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Rumal of woven cotton, embroidered with mercerised cottons mainly in darning-stitch with small areas of buttonholing. The design consists of a roughly rectangular central motif probably representing a garden with diamond-shaped plots, stylised trees and flowering plants, and four pools represented by mirrors inset. Between this central area and the outer borders, stylised designs appear on each of the four sides of the cloth: one row of three pairs of peacocks, two rows of four man-and-camel pairs, and one row of four raths (?). A border of large and small triangular and lozenge motifs, in staggered rows, five deep, surrounds the cloth, and is itself surrounded by two outer borders, one a simple outline, and the other (the outermost) a double row of small triangles. The cloth is edged by a braid.
Colours: white and unbleached ground, embroidery in two reds, orange, magenta, two yellows, blue, green (possibly two greens) and tiny area of black.

Object details

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Object type
Materials and techniques
Woven cotton, embroidered with mercerised cottons
Brief description
Rumal, woven cotton embroidered with mercerised cottons, Rajasthan, India, 20th century
Physical description
Rumal of woven cotton, embroidered with mercerised cottons mainly in darning-stitch with small areas of buttonholing. The design consists of a roughly rectangular central motif probably representing a garden with diamond-shaped plots, stylised trees and flowering plants, and four pools represented by mirrors inset. Between this central area and the outer borders, stylised designs appear on each of the four sides of the cloth: one row of three pairs of peacocks, two rows of four man-and-camel pairs, and one row of four raths (?). A border of large and small triangular and lozenge motifs, in staggered rows, five deep, surrounds the cloth, and is itself surrounded by two outer borders, one a simple outline, and the other (the outermost) a double row of small triangles. The cloth is edged by a braid.
Colours: white and unbleached ground, embroidery in two reds, orange, magenta, two yellows, blue, green (possibly two greens) and tiny area of black.
Dimensions
  • Length: 45.5cm
  • Width: 40.5cm
Object history
Purchased. Registered File number 1979/2070.
Subjects depicted
Collection
Accession number
IS.3-1980

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Record createdJune 25, 2009
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