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Large fragment of a silk sari
Large fragment of a silk wrapper
Baluchar saris were manufactured in Baluchar in the 18th and 19th centuries. Characteristic was their ground tone in purple, violet, purple and sometimes dark blue or chestnut brown, with additional accents in gold/yellow and sometimes a little green, white and red. Since the process is time-consuming (up to six months) and the base material expensive (silk), the saris were intended for an upper c…
Type of item
- Object Type: fabric
- fabric fragment
- Textile
Date
- Begin 20ste eeuw
Medium
- Material: mixed fibres
- Material: silk
- mixed fibers
- silk (silkworm material)
- Silk
- Mixed fibres
Type of item
- Object Type: fabric
- fabric fragment
- Textile
Date
- Begin 20ste eeuw
Medium
- Material: mixed fibres
- Material: silk
- mixed fibers
- silk (silkworm material)
- Silk
- Mixed fibres
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1900/1950
Provenance
- 1968-01-01
- Aankoop
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/117280
Format
- Technique: weaving techniques
- textile techniques
- Weave
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- gold
- white
- purple
- yellow
- green
- red
- wax
- gold
- paisley
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-11T07:13:13.286Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-10-15T07:33:21.569Z