Orange cotton cloth embroidered in gold silk lattice-work design with floral elements.

Collection type: Object
Description: Orange cotton cloth embroidered in gold silk lattice-work design with floral elements.
Geographical reference: India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Punjab Amritsar
Person: Field collector Helen Maria Dennis; PRM source Helen Maria Dennis; PRM source Dorothy Mayers
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1920?, uncertain
Date collected: By 1920?
Acquisition information: Donated: 1968
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Material Pigment, Process Embroidered, Process Stitched, Process Woven, Process Dyed
Dimensions: Length 2210 mm, Width 1430 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1968.21.4
Research and responses: I have not seen this item but suspect that it might have been originally made as a shawl (either as a garment or to present to a temple). [JN 21/5/2002]

Search terms: Furniture Dwelling, Textile, Clothing, House-ornament, Curtain, Shawl

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