The complete object would have been intended for use as a garment, clothing. Textile, fragment of a reversible checked garment , Varanasi, ca. 1855-1879 Fragment of a silk shawl or sari, reversible, magenta with squares of gold-wrapped thread on one side, purple with squares of gold-wrapped thread on the other, the magenta side has an end border of zari work in gold-wrapped thread and a similar border, the purple side has a border of zari work in silver-wrapped thread and purple and black stripes.