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baby's jacket
This is a small child's jacket for a festival. It is made from red cotton fabric, edged with turquoise bias binding, and decorated with gold metallic braid. It ties across the front with same turquoi...
moon shawl (Chandar)
c. 1830
Complete shawl in interlocking twill tapestry. Dense floral patterned quarter (corner) medallions and central medallion. Hashia (outside border) of running ornament. One set of borders which have b...
stole
mid 20th-late 20th Century
A navy silk woven stole, woven on a lappet loom, with buteh (Paisley) motifs, brocaded, in a border design. There is also extra weft figuring of gold metallic threads.
shawl
early 19th Century
This shawl is twill tapestry woven. It is of a design known as a chand-dar or 'moon shawl' which has a central circular design (moon) and a quarter circle in each corner. Inside the circles and quad...
shawl
before 1945
The main body of this shawl is composed of four nearly square panels of twill woven fabric in red, green, purple and cream. Each panel has a buteh embroidered in the outermost corner and a narrow ban...
cushion cover panel
before 1945
This oblong cushion cover panel was brought from India around 1945-6. It has an all-over embroidered design in chain stitch depicting a spray of flowers in the centre and individual flowers in each c...
phulkari shawl
before 1946
This shawl is decorated with phulkari embroidery, a technique from the Punjab which is characterised by the use of darning stitch. The design is of densely worked roundels with chevron and lozenge pa...
burnous or shawl
mid 19th-early 20th Century
A long shawl in fine white wool with a wide black border and floss silk satin stitch floral and boteh motif embroidery and fringing. Two tassels hang at one side. This may be known as a burnous (a...