Turban Cloth
ca. 1855 (made)
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Length of block printed turban cloth, coarse cotton printed with rows of small bud and leaf design in terracotta and black.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Woven cotton, block printed |
| Brief description | Part of a turban cloth, block-printed cotton in black and red design of small flowers, Saidapet, Tamil Nadu, c.1855 |
| Physical description | Length of block printed turban cloth, coarse cotton printed with rows of small bud and leaf design in terracotta and black. |
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| 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. |
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| Associated object | IND.LOST.1381 (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. / |
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| Accession number | 7608(IS) |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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