Pice of Mashru

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Tiruchchirappalli (made)

Full-width section of one end of a piece of mashru (satin-woven fabric with silk warps and cotton wefts). Bright pink warps, dark green selvedges, white cotton weft. Warp-ikat continues white chevron design in horizontal rows. End finish of thick yellow silk wefts. Narrow border of red and yellow chevrons inside the selvedge.

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Categories	Textiles SCRAN India Museum
Object type	Pice of mashru
Materials and techniques	Silk, cotton, woven, resist-dyed, warp ikat Cotton Silk (Textile) Weaving
Brief description	Piece of mashru, pink with white chevron design Tiruchchirappalli, ca. 1855
Physical description	Full-width section of one end of a piece of mashru (satin-woven fabric with silk warps and cotton wefts). Bright pink warps, dark green selvedges, white cotton weft. Warp-ikat continues white chevron design in horizontal rows. End finish of thick yellow silk wefts. Narrow border of red and yellow chevrons inside the selvedge.
Dimensions	Length: 78cm Width: 89,5cm
Object history	'Mashru' is a satin weave cloth with a combination of a cotton weft and silk warp, the cotton weft being the lower layer in contact with the skin. The fabric was originally woven for Muslim men who were prohibited from wearing pure silk. 'Mashru' (meaning 'permitted' in Arabic) was woven all over India, though it survives today mainly in Gujarat.
Subject depicted	Stripes
Bibliographic reference	Indian ikat textiles / Rosemary Crill. London: V&A Publications, 1998 Number: 1851772421 pp. 132-133, pl. 110
Other number	11,653 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	7027(IS)

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Record created	March 27, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O77291/pice-of-mashru-unknown/

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