Cloth
Artist:
India
Date: 20th century
Medium: Cotton, ikat
Classification: Materials
Credit Line: Bequest of Agnes Hulburd Conger
Object number: 1981.9.157
DescriptionA medium - blue, square cotton cloth, hand-woven, with wide borders of multi - colored stripes, small brocaded geometric motifs (discontinuous suppl. weft threads), and a band of ikat - dyed animals. Longitudinal borders have a woven tumpal pattern (a step, or temple, pattern) and a band of geometrically patterned warp floats. Stripes/ikat border resembles some saris of Osissan manufacture