white-on-white embroidered fabric

white-on-white embroidered fabric , 1800s or early 1900s

Where object was made: India

Material/technique: raw silk; cotton; embroidering; tabby

Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 823 x 85 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 33 1/2 x 324 in

Credit line: Source unknown

Accession number: 0000.2433

Not on display

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Exhibition Label:
“Flowers, Dragons and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art,” Nov-2005, Mary Dusenbury
This fabric is twenty-seven feet long and is composed of repeated sets of forty-two inch patterns of flowering plants. A European probably commissioned the lovely satin stitch floral designs, worked to be seen from both sides. The fabric was possibly intended for use
as bed curtains.