Research in Progress Hanging in the shape of a horizontal rectangle with eight tabs at the bottom. The rectangle is of blue cotton plain weave with embroidery in red and yellow silk in borders ornamented with discs of mirrored glass. Five tabs are of this type of embroidery and three are beadwork.
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
- Date published
- 19th century
- Dates
- 19th century
- Format
- Medium: silk, cotton, mirrored glass, glass beads Technique: surface, ladder, buttonhole and chain stitch embroidery on plain weave Label: surface, ladder, buttonhole and chain stitch silk embroidery on cotton ground with mirrored glass, glass beads
- Pages
- H x W: 63 × 122 cm (24 13/16 × 48 1/16 in.)
- Place Discussed
- India
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- India
- Reference
- 1945-54-8
- Rights
- Gift of Mary S. M. Gibson
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/ec385111666929d46de39ecfbc9687af
