| Accession# |
R-102 |
| Artist |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Culture |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Cotton silk, mashru and Synthetic cloth, cotton and silk threads, mirrors and tassels.
CONSTRUCTION: Machine stitched, embroidered: square chain, cretan, interlaced, herringbone, buttonhole filling, buttonhole and romanian stitches.
MOTIFS: Popti, makodiyun, tak bawaliyun, gotto, and sudo.
COLOURS : Multicoloured on black and red.
STYLE REMARKS: Motifs are traditional, but embroidery is in larger bolder style of middle period. Borders are traditional to toran. Field motifs were popular during middle period.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: The toran is used throughout western India as an auspicious welcoming. The simplest version is a string of auspicious leavs, 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 Doorways
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| Category |
Household Decoration |
| Object Name |
Toran |
| Other Name |
Doorway decoration |
| Sub-category |
DoorWays\decoration |
| Provenance |
Sanosara, Ta. Bhuj, kutch, Gujarat, India. |
| Search Terms |
Kachhi Rabari
Toran
Kutch |
| Technique |
Embroidery :Rabari |
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