Selected South Asia Holdings

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SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of hand-woven cotton in which the warps are much thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, irregularly spun wefts, which vary in thickness across their length. Ivory and …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of hand woven cotton in which the warps are much thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, slubby wefts. The wefts are grouped in combinations which vary across …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of hand-woven cotton in which the warps are much thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, irregularly spun wefts, which vary in thickness across their length. Red-orange and …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of a hand woven cotton plaid with a slightly slubbed texture. Warp has wide bands of burnt orange and olive with narrow stripes of fuchsia; weft has wide bands …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of hand woven cotton in which the warps are much thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, slubby wefts. The wefts are grouped in combinations which vary across …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of a hand woven cotton plaid with a slightly slubbed texture. Warp has wide bands of burnt orange and green; weft has wide bands of burnt orange and purple. …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of hand woven cotton in which the warps are much thinner and more tightly twisted than the loosely-twisted, slubby wefts. The wefts are grouped in combinations which vary across …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of a hand woven cotton with irregular wide and narrow weft stripes of red, dark purple and light purple. The warp is red throughout.


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Sample of a hand woven cotton plaid with a slightly slubbed texture. Warp has wide bands of royal blue and slate blue with narrow stripes of burnt orange; weft has …


SIL: Smithsonian Libraries · 1965

Woven sample with a delicate, hatched appearance through alternation of a green and orange warp and a green and yellow weft.