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Man's Angarkha (Outer Robe)
Late 18th or early 19th century
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; pieced
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 128.3 × 92.7 cm (50 1/2 × 36 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- India
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Belle M. Borland Endowment Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
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About this work
Indian cotton weavers have been creating delicate, sheer textiles for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Elite men and women on the Indian subcontinent valued such fine, cotton muslin or mulmul—a specialty of Bengal that was made entirely by hand—for fashionable clothing.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
