woman's headcloth

woman's headcloth , 1800s–early 1900s

Where object was made: Kutch, Gujarat, India

Material/technique: silk; embroidering; cotton; stem stitch; tabby

Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial

Accession number: 1928.0855

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“Flowers, Dragons and Pine Trees: Asian Textiles in the Spencer Museum of Art,” Nov-2005, Mary Dusenbury
The village woman who embroidered this headcloth created an exuberant mass of casually executed flowers and strewed them across the surface of the cloth.
Women’s headcloths varied in styl materials and execution from this rough, cotton headcloth to the luxurious silk wedding odhani nearby.