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Total number of records: 127

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Pakistan127
Peshawar10
Sindh2
Afghanistan1
Punjab1
Swat1

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From 1900125
From 20001

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Up to 1999125
Up to latest1

Textile

fragment of Sind embroidery

20th century

A fragment of a border in cotton muslin with repeated embroidered boteh like floral motifs in red and green, within a three sided border of repeat flowers and black/yellow edges. It is cut on the rig...

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dress
Textile

dress

Punjabi girl's dress of orange loose plain weave cotton, with long sleeves.

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scarf
Textile

scarf

mid 20th-late 20th Century

A red, black and yellow tie dyed chiffon scarf, using the India technique of Bandhani. In the Bandhani technique small resist patterns are created by tying off small sections of fabric. In this sample...

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Textile

decorative panel

early 21st Century

A white cotton with a silver supplementary thread. One corner is elaborately decorated with gold coloured metal thread satin stitch embroidery and plastic sequins in a winged motif with heart and flo...

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fragment of Sind embroidery

20th century

A fragment of a border in cotton muslin with repeated embroidered boteh like floral motifs in red and green, with an upper border of repeat flowers and black/yellow edges. The bottom edge is missing, ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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ajrakh fabric
Textile

ajrakh fabric

20th Century

Printed in red and blue with circle and star motifs on cotton fabric. Ajrakh printing is associated with Sindh province (Southern Pakistan), and Kutch region in Gujerat (India). Mud is used as ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with a geometric design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing block to ...

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cushion cover
Textile

cushion cover

1986

A cushion cover with an abstracted floral design produced by discharge printing. The discharge printing process begins with the dyeing of the whole of the fabric then a paste applied with a printing ...

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