Intended for use as a garment, headwear. Complete silk and cotton turban cloth, black cotton and yellow silk warps in the field, red silk wefts. Side borders have red and yellow silk and metal-wrapped thread warps. End borders of metal-wrapped thread. Dark red field with yellow squares, borders with circular design within squares. Floral motif in gold-wrapped thread in one corner of the field. Textile, turban cloth, silk and cotton, dark red with yellow checks and gold borders, Coimbatore, ca. 1850-1879.