Selected South Asia Holdings

Selected South Asia Holdings

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Research in Progress Dress trimmings consisting of embroidered bodice detail, collar and cuffs mounted on red felt. Tassels have woven and wrapped metallic thread over red silk base.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Small flowering botehs are brocaded in green, red, blue, and gold and are enclosed in a stamped lozenge shaped grid on a dark blue background.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Kashmir shawl fragment. Elaborate flowerheads on scrolling stems with fine small leaves, buds, and small flowers; scrolling floral guard border with decorated guard strips. In yellows, orange, …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Upper torso, head and crown carved from one piece of wood and painted with red, blue, gold, and black on pale yellow. Long green skirt with red …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Fragment of a woven textile patterned by a vertically symmetrical pattern of two different offset and dovetailed rows of flowering plants. This fragment isolates on plants. Multi …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Four strands of links of graduated length, alternately beaded and fasetted, on concealed inner chain; fastened at ends to two triangular elements decorated with filigree and flattened …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Shawl with a green warp and blue weft in changeable green and blue vertical stripes. Green fringe at either end.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries

Research in Progress Bedcover embroidered in multicolored silk with a flowering tree in a field and floral vine border with birds. On a tobacco-brown ground.