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Description: | pink-buff cotton, block printed and resist-dyed with 4 band corner border of butas, flowerheads, fans etc in red, rust and black, both sides printed; part of a handkerchief for Hindu use, rectangle; selvedge on one short side, other sides raw; corner pattern; wide border of 5 bands: 1: continuous scrolling stem in black with flowers, buds and butas in red, lines of red and black chevrons; 2: large half-rosettes of 8 petals in red, rows of buff squares, red band, row of loops in red and buff, black arches; 3: cockerels, each one facing in opposite direction from next, and alternately black and rust, edged with narrow bands of black rosettes joined by curved fern fronds in buff, rust ground; 4: pointed oval leaves each filled with a palmette and stems of minute leaves, narrow band of pink lozenges, rust ground, edged with black and pink checks; 5: stems of minute leaves centred by a hexafoil forming butas, alternately rust and black, narrow band of large spots; the field with diaper of crosses with triangular arms, in row alternately red or black
label: old paper label, hand-written in ink, "Portion of a handkerchief for Hindu use, on English cloth" (joint label with NCM 1889-352),
Accession number: NCM 1889-353 | Subjects: | textiles (printed) foreign costume and textiles | Temporal: | 1880-1888 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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