Treasures of Indian Textiles: Calico Museum
MARG Publications 1980
Ahmedabad, India
Book Cover
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
Patka, girdle detail
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
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
