1855~, Madurai
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1855~, Madurai
- Identifier
- 4389(IS)
- Collection
- Technique
- Depiction
- Geometrical motif 51%
- Geometrical motif 77%
- Geometrical motif 77%
- Geometrical motif 88%
- Geometrical motif 51%
- Dimension
- 600 cm (length)106 cm (width)
- Production time
- Production place
- Type of object
Description
The complete piece would have been intended for use as a garment, clothing.
Part of a wrapped garment, probably a sari, dark red silk, brocaded with gold-wrapped thread in decorative vertical bands. Black and gold borders, a deep plain end border at one end.
Sari, red cotton with metal-wrapped thread brocade, Madurai, c. 1855; Textiles; Women's Clothes
