Rijksmuseum Amsterdam online catalogue (retrieved 14 September 2016).
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Embroidered Cloth (India)
Indian cloth made of cotton with silk embroidery, late eighteenth century.
Courtesy Rijksmuseum Amsterdam acc. no. BK-NM-4964.
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam houses an ivory-coloured piece of cloth made of cotton, powdered with embroidered sprigs of rose-red flowers on a green stem, worked in silk. The cloth originates from India and dates to the late eighteenth century and measures 114 x 137 cm. It may have been part of a dress, or intended to be so, for a woman in early nineteenth century Europe.
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Daily and general garments and textiles