DepartmentTextiles-Asia
Phulkar Bagh (Pillars)
NameShawl
Artist
Artist Not Recorded
Date20th century
Place madePunjab, India, South Asia, Asia
MediumCotton, silk, natural dyes
Dimensions95 11/16 × 46 7/16 in. (243 × 118 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Nora Fisher, from the Ronald Harvey Goodman collection, A.2016.87.1
Object numberA.2016.87.1
DescriptionLarge, fully embroidered shawl with two Punjabi inscriptions lower left, formed of two panels sewn together lengthwise. Golden brown ground cloth embroidered with multiple large triangular elements at short edges and smaller triangular elements along the long sides. Embroidered in shades of gold and orange, with pale green, hot pink and white. The center is composed of horizontal bands of orange alternating with repeated small rectangular blocks in the same accent colors.
c. 1930
1928 - 1935
Artist Not Recorded
ca. 1960s
Early-mid 20th Century (Pre-1949)
