| Accession# |
MM-018 |
| Artist |
Maru Meghval |
| Culture |
Maru Meghval |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Cotton & synthetic chint cloth, cotton & rayon threads, mirrors, sequins, beads, tassels.
CONSTRUCTION: Machine st., Embr : surface satin, interlaced, btt. hole, Romanian, couched, cross stittches.
MOTIFS: Mor, jhad, golado, chaki, laher, mod.
STYLE REMARKS: Suf-the seeming chaotic arrangement of motifs is unusual. Artisans use a different pattern in each leaf of a toran.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Synthetic chint cloth is from Pakistan and was used for ghaghra.
CULTURAL REMARKS: In older embroideries, plied cotton thread called kashmiro was used.
Toran, Doorway hanging. |
| Category |
Household Decoration |
| Object Name |
Toran |
| Other Name |
Doorway hanging |
| Sub-category |
DoorWays\decoration |
| Provenance |
Tharad, Banaskantha, Gujarat ,India. |
| Search Terms |
Embroidery
Maru Meghval
Mod
Doorway hanging
Suf |
| Technique |
Embroidery: Suf |
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