Textile Item Number: 1496/1 from the MOA: University of British Columbia
Description
Large, rectangular wool textile, bordered on the long edges with darkly coloured and brightly coloured woven stripes, and embellished horizontally with (mostly) lighter coloured narrow stripes in various patterns and colours, on an off-white background. Embellishments are either embroidered (counted thread technique) or worked in discontinuous supplemental weft. Fringed ends. The piece is woven in two identical, long, narrow halves which are joined in the centre, using a decorative embroidery stitch. The two ends of the textile are identical, mirror-images. The textile is reversible; the patterns on the two sides are similar but not identical.
Specific Techniques
discontinuous weft ?; counted stitch embroidery ?; feather stitch ?
Item History
What
- Name
- Textile
- Identification Number
- 1496/1
- Type of Item
- textile
- Material
- wool fibre and dye
- Manufacturing Technique
- woven and embroidered
- Overall
- height 236.0 cm, width 146.0 cm
Who
- Culture
- Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
- Previous Owner
- Lata Sood
- Received from
- Lata Sood (Donor)
Where
- Holding Institution
- MOA: University of British Columbia
- Made in
- India
When
- Ownership Date
- before January 6, 1992
- Acquisition Date
- on January 6, 1992
Other
- Item Classes
- textiles
- Condition
- good
- Accession Number
- 1496/0001