Temple cloth. Textile has block printed patterns all over the surface. Background is pale purple-pink, with dense designs in deep purple. Images of deities, people engaged in various activities, crocodiles, bovines, birds, circular decals and a gramophone are spaced across most of the cloth. Edge decorations are lines of triangles, floral motifs, and chevrons.

• Specific Techniques

  Ferrous sulphate mordant technique used to fix the colour.

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• Type of Item textile
• Culture Gujarati
• Material cotton fibre, dye
• Measurements height 150.0 cm, width 205.0 cm (overall)

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• Creator Vadilal Lakhmanbhai
• Previous Owner Dorothy Field
• Received from Dorothy Field

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• Made in Ahmadabad

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• Creation Date during 1996
• Ownership Date before September 17, 2016
• Acquisition Date on September 17, 2016

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• Item Classes textiles
• Condition good
• Accession Number 3199/0005