V&A online catalogue (retrieved 16 May 2016)
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Man with Embroidery Frame (India)
Man in Lucknow, standing next to an embroidery frame, c. 1970. Drawing by John Lockwood Kipling.
Copyright Victoria and Albert Museum, London, acc. no. 0929:26/(IS).
A drawing now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, shows a Muslim man in Lucknow, northern India, standing next to a rectangular embroidery frame, with designs for caps outlined on the cloth. The drawing was made around 1870 by John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911), father of the novelist Rudyard Kipling.
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South Asia