Selected South Asia Holdings

Selected South Asia Holdings

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Research in Progress Round pointed hat with a shoulder cape. Dark blue silk with all-over closely-spaced formalized flower design in red, yellow, green and cream silks and round bits of …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress White, rather coarse, plain weave ground. All-over closely-spaced design of stylized lotus blossom and foliate motifs. Blue resist-print.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Imbricated palmette rise from a central point. Other pieces have been added to the fragment which shows parts of another design. Fragment is seamed in center, pieced …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Curving floral stems on white islands on a background of red ribbons and picotage.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Two thicknesses of rust-red cotton embroidered in orange, white, blue-green, mauve silks and round mirrors set in buttonhole stitch, with close-set stylized plant forms; narrow border on …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Bag of green cotton, embroidered in red, yellow, white, black cotton, in an all-over abstract geometric pattern.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Two small horizontal panels joined by vertical seam. Left panel: Islamic inscription framed top and bottom by plait border, guilloche on right side - reserved on blackish …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Fragment with a white ground printed in a pattern of vertical stripes containing a meandering floral vine between guard borders of red and white checks.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Dark pink satin ground with brilliant polychrome symmetrical small scale repeat of flowering bush surrounded by serpentine vines and flanked by paired peacocks.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Fabric cut for right front of vest.