Cloth with Beetlewing and Gold Thread Embroidery (India)

Cloth with beetlewing and gold thread embroidery, Chennai, India, late 19th century. Cloth with beetlewing and gold thread embroidery, Chennai, India, late 19th century. Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. IS.1917 to E-1883.

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London houses a cloth from Chennai (Madras), India, that around 1880 was made at the Hobart School for Mussulman Girls, perhaps as a sample for the export. It is decorated with gold thread embroidery (zardozi) and beetlewing cases attached to net.  

V&A online catalogue (retrieved 3 October 2016).

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