Embroidered Silk Satin Woman's Odhni (Headcover)
Indian (Banni, Kutch, Gujerat), ca. 1900

Hull Traders Cotton

Rust-colored satin ground embroidered with eyelets and cross stitch in black, white, red, and dull gold silk thread with large, central diamond with converging rows of triangle motifs and stepped, geometric motif with set-in mirrors at each point; the ground covered with small, regularly spaced geometric motifs.

References: See Rosemary Crill, Indian Embroidery (1999), p. 93, nos. 85 & 86, for similar examples.

90" H x 63" W
SOLD

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