Textile fragment

Museum number:
9-12104
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.2965
Description:
Textile fragment; dark blue silk gauze embroidered with flat silver wire (native name Badla). Length 16 cm, width 4 cm. Used as part of a sari border. Made in Lucknow by Muslim artisans.
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 9-12104, described as Textile fragment; dark blue silk gauze embroidered with flat silver wire (native name Badla). Length 16 cm, width 4 cm. Used as part of a sari border. Made in Lucknow by Muslim artisans.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Textile fragment, accession number 9-12104, described as Textile fragment; dark blue silk gauze embroidered with flat silver wire (native name Badla). Length 16 cm, width 4 cm. Used as part of a sari border. Made in Lucknow by Muslim artisans.

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