- Object name(s):
- Border
- Brief description:
- Border made of white muslin embroidered with yellow 'tasar' silk in chain stitch. With repeating pattern of birds and deer among floral sprigs between two narrow wavy sprig borders. All the motifs, worked in rows of chain stitch, are yellow on a white ground. Below is a scalloped fringe of loose bobbin lace.
- Collection:
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Associated concept:
- Embroidery
- Associated concept:
- Textiles
- Associated concept:
- Lace
- Content - concept:
- flower
- Content - concept:
- bird
- Credit line:
- Given by Miss Evelyn J. Markham and Miss Mabel F. Markham
- Current reproduction location:
- https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2006AN9651/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg
- Location type:
- Thumbnail
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 155
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 23
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 61
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 8.75
- Dimension:
- Length
- Dimension measured part:
- repeat
- Dimension measurement unit:
- in
- Dimension value:
- 12
- Material:
- cotton
- Object name:
- Border
- Object number:
- T.6-1936
- Object production date:
- 17th century
- Date - association:
- made
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1600-01-01
- Date - latest:
- 1700-12-31
- Object production note:
- The town of Hooghly on the River Hooghly or Bhagirathi was a trading post for many European companies including East India Company.
- Object production person:
- Unknown
- Object production place:
- Hugli
- Place association:
- made
- Physical description:
- Border made of white muslin embroidered with yellow 'tasar' silk in chain stitch. With repeating pattern of birds and deer among floral sprigs between two narrow wavy sprig borders. All the motifs, worked in rows of chain stitch, are yellow on a white ground. Below is a scalloped fringe of loose bobbin lace.
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN9651
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN8415
- Reproduction number:
- 2006AN8413
- Reproduction number:
- 2012FN1463
- Reproduction number:
- 2019LX7406
- Responsible department/section:
- SSEA
- Technique:
- embroidered
- Technique:
- Embroidered cotton muslin with silk, bobbin lace
- Text reason:
- Collections online record
- User's reference:
- Reference:
- Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . [London]: Whitechapel Art Gallery, [1979] Number: 085488047X (pbk.) :
- Reference:
- Indian embroidery / Rosemary Crill ; photography by Richard Davis. London: V&A Publications, 1999 Number: 185177310X, 1851772944 (pbk.)
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.66
- User's reference:
- Reference details:
- p.39, pl. 20
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/92e3961d-cf2b-35aa-b4e4-df84b78d59a4
Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/92e3961d-cf2b-35aa-b4e4-df84b78d59a4, Victoria and Albert Museum, CC BY-NC
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