LENGTH OF MASHRU Woven silk and cotton Aurangabad, Maharashtra c. 1851 This length of flower-patterned mashru, a speciality of Aurangabad, was displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was one of the first textiles purchased by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A). The British designer Owen Jones included its pattern in his 1856 publication The Grammar of Ornament, which became a seminal text on the principles of design. [01/08/2017] Textile in two fragments, woven cotton and silk (mashru), dark purple ground with small flowers in green and red, Aurangabad, c. 1851; Textiles This textile was illustrated in Henry Hardy Cole's 1874 Catalogue of the Indian collection at the South Kensington Museum as an example of good design. It was also featured in Owen Jones's book, The Grammar of Ornament, (London, 1856). Fragments of a length of mashru: warp faced in silk, hidden weft in cotton. Discontiuous supplementary weft in silk (brocading) in design of small, single green and yellow stems each with three blossoms in red and white on a dark purple ground.