Research in Progress Pale blue-green sheer silk sari brocaded with widely-spaced diagonal repeat of small stylized floral motifs. Broad gold band up each long side and a row of larger floral repeats with a gold band across one end. Gold bound down in wide plain and fancy twills. One long border band extends only half way in gold. Other half is in white cotton.
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
- Date published
- ca. 1920
- Dates
- ca. 1920
- Format
- Medium: silk, cotton, metallic thread (gold foil on silk core) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning
- Pages
- H x W: 295 × 111 cm (9 ft. 8 1/8 in. × 43 11/16 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 1952-65-1
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/331b82a3c3501d45c0172bdefeeabb95
