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Description: | cream cotton, block printed and resist-dyed in rust with panels of inscriptions in Hindi, corner border of bands with human foot-prints alternate with the wheel of Asoka; part of a scarf for Hindu wear, rectangle; selvedge on one long side, other sides raw; corner pattern: border of 5 bands: 1: small serrated triangular leaves all sloped in the same direction; 2: flowerheads with solid edges, serrated petals and 9 spot centres, alternate with motifs of 2 lozenges, a bar between and at ends, a row of small trefoils on scallops on the inner edge; 3: a pair of stylised human footprints with symbols, alternate with a cog-wheel motifs (the Wheel of Asoka ?); 4: as band 2; 5: as band 1, but inverted and sloped in the opposite direction; the field with rectangles with rows of inscription in Hindi
label: old paper label, hand-written in ink, "Scarf, Resai, on native cloth, Muttra, North-West Provinces",
Accession number: NCM 1889-361 | 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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