cover image: Textile

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Textile

Research in Progress The design is a border pattern with the mordant for red painted on the cloth, then dyed, and accents of yellow hand painted.
Collection
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
Date published
ca. 1720–30
Dates
ca. 1720–30
Format
Medium: cotton Technique: painted with mordants and dyed on plain weave (chintz)
Pages
Warp x Weft: 412 x 120.5 cm (13 ft. 6 3/16 in. x 47 7/16 in.)
Place Discussed
India
Provider
Smithsonian Institution
Published in
India
Reference
1998-25-1
Rights
Museum purchase from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program, General Acquisitions Endowment, General Acquisition and Textile Funds, Sarah Cooper-Hewitt, Pauline Cooper-Noyes, and Au Panier Fleuri Funds and through gifts of Mrs. John Innes Kane, L'Antiquaire, Inc., Anonymous Donor, Mrs. Cecil Sherman Baker, McMillen, Inc., Miss Elinor Merrell, J.P. Morgan, and through bequest of Mrs. Josephine Howell
Source
Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/98fd542bf3ac8bc91a2e9b51f4896784