Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12099
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; twill weave warp satin silk tie-dyed in evenly spaced white dots on red ground; Gujerati: bandhni - "tie-dye"; L. 102 cm., W. 9.5 cm.; handwoven; Tie-dyed satin of a type and colour made in Gujerat and favoured by Parsis. This specimen was part of a sari most probably.
Donor:
Piroja Narielwala
Collection place:
Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra State, India
Culture or time period:
Parsi
Collector:
Niloufer Hirschmann Ichaporia
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Fragments (object portions) and Textile samples
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
1972
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12099, described as Textile fragment; twill weave warp satin silk tie-dyed in evenly spaced white dots on red ground; Gujerati: bandhni - "tie-dye"; L. 102 cm., W. 9.5 cm.; handwoven; Tie-dyed satin of a type and colour made in Gujerat and favoured by Parsis. This specimen was part of a sari most probably.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12099, described as Textile fragment; twill weave warp satin silk tie-dyed in evenly spaced white dots on red ground; Gujerati: bandhni - "tie-dye"; L. 102 cm., W. 9.5 cm.; handwoven; Tie-dyed satin of a type and colour made in Gujerat and favoured by Parsis. This specimen was part of a sari most probably.

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