Gamucha (sweat towel) of dark red, magenta, green, turquoise, yellow and white hand-woven cotton
- Title
- Gamucha (sweat towel) of dark red, magenta, green, turquoise, yellow and white hand-woven cotton
- LC Subject
- accessories (object genre)
- Donor
- Simmerville, Clara L.
- Description
- Gamucha (sweat towel) of dark red, magenta, green, turquoise, yellow and white hand-woven cotton with stripes, check and floral motifs; design of horizontal bands with outer vertical bands that intersect creating a plaid effect; floral motifs in ikat.
- Work Type
- shawls
- Location
- Odisha >> India
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1990.002.041
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Special dye process Hand-spun Hand-woven
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Gamucha translates as sweat towel. They are used by men as a towel after bathing, and as a shawl worn over the shoulder to dry sweat. Menial laborers and farm workers wear them as a head scarf or loin cloth. Most Gamucha have stripe and check pattern in red, orange or green. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamucha
