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Waistcoat Front Panel
India, for the European Market
1760s
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; embroidered with silk yarns and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in chain stitches
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 88.2 × 41.9 cm (34 1/4 × 16 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- India
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Belle M. Borland Endowment
- 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
By the 18th century Indian textile artisans had already been celebrated internationally for centuries for their cotton textiles, whether embroidered or dyed in bright colors. This waistcoat front panel exemplifies Indian makers’ ability to cater to the taste of foreign markets: the shape of the embroidery was made to the specifications of Western European tailoring.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
