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Embroidered Cloth (India)

Indian cloth made of cotton with silk embroidery, late eighteenth century. Indian cloth made of cotton with silk embroidery, late eighteenth century. Courtesy Rijksmuseum Amsterdam acc. no. BK-NM-4964.

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam houses an ivory-coloured piece of cloth made of cotton, powdered with embroidered sprigs of rose-red flowers on a green stem, worked in silk. The cloth originates from India and dates to the late eighteenth century and measures 114 x 137 cm. It may have been part of a dress, or intended to be so, for a woman in early nineteenth century Europe.

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue (retrieved 14 September 2016).

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