Not currently on display at the V&A

Trousers

1855 (made)
Artist/Maker
Unknown
Place of origin
Lahore (made)

Trousers, red silk with white and green stripes


Object details

Categories
Clothing
SCRAN
Textiles
India Museum
Object type
Trousers
Materials and techniques
Woven silk
Silk (Textile)
Woven
Brief description
Trousers (paijama), red silk with white and green stripes, Lahore, 1855; Textile
Physical description
Trousers, red silk with white and green stripes
Dimensions
  • Waist to ankle length: 99cm
  • Waist width: 85cm
Object history
Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. Slip book entry 3766: 'Male Clothing / Lahore / 55 / Cashmere Choga / White Robe & Red Satin Tunic & also Red Silk drawers Silk Strings attached'. 1880 Register entry: '05643. CHOGA. Scarlet cashmere, embroidered with gold. Robe, white muslin, embroidered with gold. Tunic, red satin. "Pyjamas," striped red silk with silk strings; Lahore"
Associated objects
Bibliographic reference
Colours of the Indus : costume and textiles of Pakistan / Nasreen Askari and Rosemary Crill. London: Merrell Holberton in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1997 Number: 1858940443 pp. 96-97, pl. 154
Other number
3766 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection
South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number
05643:4/(IS)

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Record createdNovember 11, 2002
Record URL
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