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Description: | Man’s shoulder bag. Sahria. Made of a rectangular panel of cloth with bands of continuous supplementary weft, the panel folded to make the bag, with a strip of cloth folded over and sewn onto the sides, forming a loop shoulder strap.The main panel design in supplementary red, yellow, and white cotton on a black cloth, the red and yellow forming rows of lozenges with stripes in between. The loop strap also in supplementary red, yellow and white cotton on a black and red cloth with similar lozenge-rows design on the bag sides and black, red, yellow and white stripes on the loop, with small rows of lozenges outlined in black thread. A paper label folded over the strap loop, and sewn, handwritten with: `LAKHER HAND WOVEN BAG. USED MOSTLY BY MEN’.
caption: Frontal view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1993.358
caption: Rear view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1993.358
caption: Detail view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1993.358
caption: General view of label of Horniman Museum object no 1993.358 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | bags (containers) Mara textile | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-123383 | Go to resource |
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