| Accession# |
R-097 |
| Artist |
Vagadia Rabari |
| Culture |
Vagadia Rabari |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Silk and Cotton cloth, silk and cotton threads, mirrors and tassels.
CONSTRUCTION: Machine stitched, hand embroidered: interlaced, herringbone, chain, cretan, buttonhole filling, detached chain stitches.
MOTIFS: Popti, makodiyun, jharmar, tak bawaliyun, goto, sudo and limbudi tak.
COLOURS : Multicoloured on black and red.
STYLE REMARKS: Old styles among three Kutchi subgroups were similar. The central motif is derived from classic Mochi, parrot and flower are specific to Vagadia Rabari.
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.''
CULTRUAL 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 |
Chobari, kutch, Gujarat, India. |
| Search Terms |
Vagadia Rabari
doorway hanging
Toran
Kutch |
| Technique |
Embroidery :Rabari |
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