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Silk embroidery on silk ground choli [bodice] fragment. Choli sleeve professionally embroiderd by Mochi community . Kutch or Saurashtra, Gujarat, India. Early 20th century. Height 32.5cm, width 23cm.

Worked with an ari [like a tambour hook]. Mochis are a Muslim community formerly of leatherworkers who embroidered this for a Hindu patron.

Published: Traditional Indian Textiles, John Gillow & Nicholas Barnard, Thames and Hudson, 1994, page 108;

Indian Textiles, John Gillow & Nicholas Barnard, Thames and Hudson, 2008, dustjacket front.

Acquired from John Gillow during the Leicester book launch of World Textiles: A Visual Guide to Traditional Techniques, John Gillow & Brian Sentance, Thames and Hudson, 2004.

Ref.SG33

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Price: £350