1963 SOLD Large Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment - Indigo flowers form_cushion Masterpiece

Masterpiece

Plain embroidered skirt from Gujarat

for example portrays Vishnu Narayana (sleeping)

Size: 11'8'' x 19

1963 SOLD Large Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment - Indigo flowers form_cushion MasterpieceFantastic little fragment of an Indian Trade textile. Amazing Indigo blue &rose salmon flower. A large example with the same aesthetic quality with dozens of flowers is present in the Tapi collection. [reference: pages 6 & 7 of 'Masters of the Cloth'] Another similar example has been published on page 55 in 'Master Dyers to the World' by Mattiebelle Gittinger Collected on a field visit to Toraja, Sulawesi. This fragment has been saved from a fire