Palampore with Flowering Tree Design (India)

Palampore hanging with a design of a flowering tree, India, late 17th or ealy 18th century. Palampore hanging with a design of a flowering tree, India, late 17th or ealy 18th century. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, acc. no. M.74.3.

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art houses a palampore from late seventeenth or early eighteenth century India, embroidered with a motif of a flowering tree (as with all traditional palampores). It measures 328 x 264 cm. It is made of cotton with silk thread embroidery worked with a chain stitch.

See also the Needles entry on a palampore from Gujarat, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art online catalogue (retrieved 9 December 2016)

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