qalamkari hanging

Not on Display

Geography:
Iran, ?; India, ?
Materials:
cotton
Collection:
The Textile Museum Collection
Accession Number:
1980.8.5
Credit Line:
Gift of Isabel T. Kelly
Date:
second half 19th century
Copyright:
Public domain
Object Type:
Textile
Dimensions:
165.10 L x 103.51 W cm (65 L x 40 3/4 W in)
Structure:
bleached; block printed; calendared; dyed; hand painted; resist dyed; plain weave, balanced
Bibliography:
"Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart", The Textile Museum Bulletin, The Textile Museum Bulletin, Washington, D.C., 1987, vol. Fall, p. 6
Sumi Hiramoto Gluck (Co-Editor) and Carl J. Penton (Co-Editor) and Sumi Hiramoto Gluck (Author) and Jay Gluck (Author), A Survey of Persian Handicraft: A Pictorial Introduction to the Contemporary Folk Arts and Art Crafts of Modern Iran, Bank Melli Iran by Survey of Persian Art, Tehran, Iran, 1977, p. 187
Pat Kirkham (Co-Editor) and Susan Weber (Co-Author), History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000, Bard Graduate Center, New York and Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2013, 368, Fig 15.14
Alisa Baginski (Author), "A Group of Qalamkar Fabrics in the Israel Museum", The Carpets and Textiles of Iran, New Perspective in Research, The Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, Oxfordshire, England, 1993, vol. 25, no. 1-2, p. 95, fig. 1
Marie-Louise Nabholz-Kartaschoff (Author), Persian Textiles: The Ramezani Family Collection, Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg, 2019, p. 106-107, fig. 44
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Exhibition History:
Woven from the Soul, Spun from the Heart: Textile Arts of the Safavid and Qajar Iran, 16th - 19th centuries, September 12, 1987 - February 11, 1988
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