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Identifier: T.6-1936

Acquisition: Given by Miss Evelyn J. Markham and Miss Mabel F. Markham

Collection: South & South East Asia Collection

Material: Cotton

Technique: Embroider

Depiction

Floral motif 60%
Floral motif 75%

Vegetal motif 54%
Vegetal motif 60%

Geometrical motif 85%

Dimension: 155 cm (length)
30.48 cm (length)
154.94 cm (length)
22.225 cm (width)
23 cm (width)

Production time: 17th century (dates CE)

Production place: Hugli

Type of object: fabric passementerie
fabrics

Description

Border made of muslin embroidered with 'tasar' silk, Hugli, Bengal, 17th century. Border made of white muslin embroidered with yellow 'tasar' silk in chain stitch. With repeating pattern of birds and deer among floral sprigs between two narrow wavy sprig borders. All the motifs, worked in rows of chain stitch, are yellow on a white ground. Below is a scalloped fringe of loose bobbin lace.