Treasures of Indian Textiles: Calico Museum

Treasures of Indian Textiles: Calico Museum
MARG Publications 1980
Ahmedabad, India

Book Cover

Cover (Kantha) , Cotton quilted and embroidered with colored cottons, from Bengal, 19th century

L: 94cm; W: 102.9 cm

Detail form a portion of a hanging cotton embroidered with silk made for English market, From Gujarat, late 17th c.
350.7 x 95.4 cm

Detail from a floor spread of painted cotton from Petaboli, Golconda

c. 1630 

315 x 231 cm

Detail from a Patola Sari (Nari Kunjar) from Gujarat, woven silk with patterned tie-dyed in the warp and weft

Early 20th century

372 x 135 cm

Golden Pichhavai, back cloth, used in shrines, specially in Nathadwara in Rajasthan. They are often painten with God Krishna and the Gopis in paradisal landscapes.

Cotton printed and painted.

18th c. Deccan region 

L: 80 cm

W: 114 cm

The refulgent sun in gold on red is taken from folk symbolism and made into an emblem of shining splendor of life itself with clouds composed in a floating fusion of conch shells. Standard of Mewar (detail)

From Mewar, Rajasthan

Late 18th century

192.6 x 142.3 cm

Figure 14 - Chola period, 10-12th c. Parvati, 70cm high

Figure 15 -  late Pala style, early 9th c. , rajmahal, bihar, 81.5cm

Detail from a Picchavai

Cotton, painted and printed

From Deccan

19th c

80 x 114 cm

Shawl from Kashmir with stylized mango pattern

18th c

24 x 22 cm

Mango patterns from Shawl pieces

early 20th c

18 x 14cm

The cotton kantha, cover, embroidered with coloured thread, Bengal 

19th c.

94 x 102.9 cm

 Patka, girdle detail

Cotton, partly stenciled and partly block-printed

mardant-dyed, resist dyed, and painted

Rajasthan 

19th c. 

243 x 63.4

Lotuses

Painting on paper

19 x 8 cm

Chausatha Yogini Stotra Pata

cotton painted, from rajasthan, mid 18th c

92 x 67 cm

Diagram of the universe

cotton, painted, from Gujarat

Late 18th c. 

92 x 71 cm

Ganesha

Cover of a foot stool

Silk embroidered with silk

late 19th c

76 x 64 cm