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Afghanistan1

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From 20001

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dress
Textile

dress

Punjabi girl's dress of orange loose plain weave cotton, with long sleeves.

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scarf
Textile

scarf

mid 20th-late 20th Century

A red, black and yellow tie dyed chiffon scarf, using the India technique of Bandhani. In the Bandhani technique small resist patterns are created by tying off small sections of fabric. In this sample...

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Textile

decorative panel

early 21st Century

A white cotton with a silver supplementary thread. One corner is elaborately decorated with gold coloured metal thread satin stitch embroidery and plastic sequins in a winged motif with heart and flo...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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ajrakh fabric
Textile

ajrakh fabric

20th Century

Printed in red and blue with circle and star motifs on cotton fabric. Ajrakh printing is associated with Sindh province (Southern Pakistan), and Kutch region in Gujerat (India). Mud is used as ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with an abstracted floral design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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bedspread
Textile

bedspread

1986

A wide decorative border with a complex pattern runs along all four edges of the piece of fabric. The decoration in the central panel consists of a repeating foliate pattern. It is hand block printe...

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