Rectangular woman's shawl, odhani, of a diaphanous, tabby-woven cotton decorated with tie-dyed patterns ('bandhani'). The decoration suggests that this might by half of a larger textile. The decoration consists of linear motifs and borders created by small resist dots or outlines. Some of the borders also contain larger contrasting coloured circles, surrounding part of the dotted pattern. 2 sets of borders consist of larger multicoloured rings arranged in matching pairs. The coloured ground changes from a red semicircle at the centre surrounded by a black ring, on a black rectangular field to red borders at the shorter sides. The tied decoration consists of circles and rectangular frames interspersed with figures of dancers, birds, elephants, as well as buti, trefoil, circular, and triangular motifs. The borders at the longer side differ from the matching ones on the shorter sides. The distribution of the patterning, as well as the shape of the resisted dots suggests that the textile was folded in half , and the ties gathered both layers. Tying threads are still partially attached to one side of half the textile.
shawl; textile
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