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97 Jamdani Saris

This is a 97 Jamdani Saris.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from dosa, inc. as part of Scraps.

Its medium is cotton, hand-spun, hand-woven and brocaded.

Two pieces stitched together possibly for use as a bag or pouch. Purple silk ground striped horizontally in purple, red and green. Gold metallic thread creates geometric figures in extra weft over these stripes.

Textile (India), 19th century
silk, gold metallic thread.
1937-35-36

Polyurethane panel embedded with saris borders and scraps from 2nd-hand sari refurbishing.

Textile Panel, Multicolor Taj, since 2009
scraps of second-hand saris (mixed fibers), polyurethane.
Courtesy of Luisa Cevese Riedizioni.
88.2015.18

Textile (France), 1875–99
silk.
Gift of Mabel Choate.
1949-107-4-a,b

Our curators have highlighted 2 objects that are related to this one.

Long silk textile, probably a shoulder cloth (selendang), in dark brown against red. Plaid ground with all-over brocading of geometric pattern with center motif on main ground. Heavy brocading in borders.

Textile (Indonesia), 19th century
silk, metallic threads.
Gift of Alan L. Wolfe.
1961-115-6

Textile woven with spaced warps and wefts showing geometric motif in pink, purple, green, yellow, and orange on off-white ground. Spaces make plaid pattern.

Textile (Indonesia), ca. 1931
cotton.
Gift of Frances Morris.
1951-111-23-b

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Scraps.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/DasRr/
Accession Number 87.2015.1-1/87
Object ID 420556691