1 of 8 painted hessian scenes from a story with a wooden frame. Painting of a young woman weaving. Upper register depicts a young woman seated at a frane loom about to insert a shuttle into the shed. She is wearing a horizontally striped sari and has bare shoulders; a white cloth edged with gold hangs on the loom behind her. In the lower register a young woman who may be the same character as the one depicted above, similarly attired, sits on the floor at a spinning wheel.
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