Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12095
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; Gujerati: Kor--"border"; part of a sari border; silk brocade with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic floral and architectural motifs in several colours on purple satin ground; L. 58.5 cm., W. 6.8 cm.; made by Chinese weavers, exported to India for Parsi customers; used as edging for a sari, probably also of Chinese silk. Parsi commercial houses in China commissioned the weaving of such borders for customers in India.
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 9-12095, described as Textile fragment; Gujerati: Kor--"border"; part of a sari border; silk brocade with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic floral and architectural motifs in several colours on purple satin ground; L. 58.5 cm., W. 6.8 cm.; made by Chinese weavers, exported to India for Parsi customers; used as edging for a sari, probably also of Chinese silk. Parsi commercial houses in China commissioned the weaving of such borders for customers in India.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12095, described as Textile fragment; Gujerati: Kor--"border"; part of a sari border; silk brocade with anthropomorphic, zoomorphic floral and architectural motifs in several colours on purple satin ground; L. 58.5 cm., W. 6.8 cm.; made by Chinese weavers, exported to India for Parsi customers; used as edging for a sari, probably also of Chinese silk. Parsi commercial houses in China commissioned the weaving of such borders for customers in India.

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