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Thai Siamese?, India

Hip wrapper, late 1700s-1800s

Description

Maker

  • Unknown

Culture

Thai

Title

Hip wrapper

Year

late 1700s-1800s

Medium

Cotton plain weave with hand-drawn resist patterning, mordant dyeing, and applied gold leaf

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • cotton,
  • gold leaf

Techniques

  • plain weave,
  • hand-painting,
  • hand-painted,
  • gilding,
  • gilded,
  • mordant dyed

Dimensions

Length: 356.9 cm (140 1/2 inches)

Place

India

Type

  • Textiles

Credit

Bequest of Miss Lucy T. Aldrich

Object Number

55.537

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Dyed Image

December 10, 1997 - March 8, 1998

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Hip wrapper with the accession number of 55.537. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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