| Accession# |
R-098 |
| Artist |
Dhebaria Rabari |
| Culture |
Dhebaria Rabari |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Cotton and silk cloth, cotton and silk threads, mirrors and tassels.
CONSTRUCTION: Hand and Machine stitched, hand embroidered: chain,double buttonhole, cretan, herringbone, buttonhole filling, detached chain stitches.
MOTIFS: Popti, makodiyun, ghodi goto, gol tak, goto, daantarle.
COLOURS : Multicoloured on black and red.
STYLE REMARKS: The conventions here were traditional to all three subgroups: same body and borders, same colours. Dhebaria variations can be recognized by narrower, pointed leaves. The centre pattern derives from a class patrons. This piece has been repaired: old mirrors are replaced by new ones with stitches.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: The toran is used throughout western India as an auspicious welcoming. The simplest version is a string of auspicious leaves, here represented by the mashru ''leaves.''
CULTURAL REMARKS: Rabaris use a toran as part of a seven piece set that decorates the doorway and walls between outer and inner rooms of their house.
Toran, doorway hanging. |
| Category |
Household Decoration |
| Object Name |
Toran |
| Other Name |
Doorway decoration |
| Sub-category |
DoorWays\decoration |
| Provenance |
Mindiara, ta. Anjar , kutch, Gujarat, India. |
| Search Terms |
Dhebaria Rabari
doorway hanging
Toran
Kutch |
| Technique |
Embroidery: Rabari |
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