Sari of dark green and red cotton tie-dyed with geometric floral designs in white dots hand painted in golden yellow and magenta accents
- Title
- Sari of dark green and red cotton tie-dyed with geometric floral designs in white dots hand painted in golden yellow and magenta accents
- LC Subject
- main garments
- Donor
- Simmerville, Clara L.
- Description
- Sari of dark green and red cotton tie-dyed with geometric floral designs in white dots hand painted in golden yellow and magenta accents; center of textile has a dark green ground that bleeds into bright red on the outer edges; handmade in a rural village of Rajasthan or Gujarat.
- Motif
- Repeat stylized plant-floral pattern
- Work Type
- saris (garments)
- Location
- India
- Date
- 1950/1959
- Identifier
- 1990.002.065
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Tie dyed Light-weight Hand-woven Block print Painted Bandhani
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- Made in a rural village of Gujarat or Rajasthan. Worn by married women to evoke a successful marriage. The small white dot design indicate that it was hand-made.
