curtain fragment

Not on Display

Artist/Maker:
Geography:
India; Madras
Materials:
cotton
Collection:
The Textile Museum Collection
Accession Number:
6.112
Credit Line:
Acquired by George Hewitt Myers in 1947
Date:
17th century;
Copyright:
Public domain
Object Type:
Textile
Dimensions:
119.03 L x 83.00 W cm (46 7/8 L x 32 11/16 W in)
Structure:
plain weave; mordant dyed, painted mordants; resist dyed, drawn resist; resist dyed, painted resist
Used in:
curtain
Bibliography:
Walter Endrei (Author) and Walter Endrei (Translator) and Alice Choyke (Translator), The First Hundred Years of European Textile-printing, Akademiai Kiado, Budapest, Hungary, 1998, fig. 1
Mattiebelle Gittinger (Author), "Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textile", The Textile Museum, The Textile Museum, Washington, D.C., 1982, pp. 72, 75, pls. 61, 65
Rahul Jain (Author), Textiles and Garments at the Jaipur Court, Niyogi Books, New Delhi, India, 2016
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Exhibition History:
Old Yarns with a new Twist: Familiar Favorites from the Textile Museum's Collection, The Textile Museum, Washington DC, June 08, 1984 - September 23, 1984
1,000 Years of Indian Textiles, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, Washington DC, February 02, 2022 - June 06, 2022
Seldom Seen: Director's Choice from the Museum's Collections, February 10, 2006 - July 30, 2006
Master Dyers to the World: Technique and Trade in Early Indian Dyed Cotton Textiles., The Textile Museum, Washington DC, October 08, 1982 - January 02, 1983
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Digitization of The Textile Museum Collection is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Shirley Z. Johnson and Charles Rumph Photography Fund and the Avenir Foundation, Inc.