Dark blue rectangular textile covered with embroidered geometric patterns and motifs in brightly coloured wool. [JP 19/4/2004]

Collection type: Object
Description: Dark blue rectangular textile covered with embroidered geometric patterns and motifs in brightly coloured wool. [JP 19/4/2004]
Long description: The base of the textile consists of black warp threads and dark blue wefts with a fringe of warp threads at either end about 25 mm long. In the centre of the textile a rectangular panel has been embroidered with a diagonal grid in red wool. Inside the diamond-shaped segments of this grid are embroidered small circles forming another diamond shape. The circles either alternate between blue, white, and pink, or orange, green, and red. Some of the circles in each segment are joined by either a straight or bent line. The perimeter of this central panel is framed with a border of squares, each composed of two triangles of different colours. This is in turn framed with a final border of multicoloured swastikas. [JP 19/4/2004]
Geographical reference: Bhutan
Asia > Southern Asia > Bhutan
Person: Field collector Bent Einer Juel-Jensen; PRM source Bent Einer Juel-Jensen; PRM source Cicely Mary Juel-Jensen
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1991?, uncertain Date made: Before 1997?, uncertain
Date collected: 1991 or 1997
Acquisition information: Donated: 01/2004
Materials and processes: Material Wool Textile Animal, Process Woven, Process Embroidered
Dimensions: Length x Width 820 x 517 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2004.18.4

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