Indian

In the 1700s, painted and printed textiles like this large palampore, or bed cover, were actively traded between India, Europe, and colonial North America. European tastes are reflected here in the color palette and decoration, the white (now yellowed) ground densely patterned with a tree-of-life motif surrounded by prancing deer, climbing mongooses, and sumptuous flowers, all rendered in red.

Conservation of this historic work was recently carried out with funds awarded by the Bank of America Art Conservation Project and an in-kind gift of treatment by the Textile Conservation Workshop.