Wonderful design hand drawn and painted, resist and mordant dyed, influenced by European silk designs and produced for the Western market, on the Coromandel Coast, India. There is a label sewn to the lower edge which states the length was in the archive of the French fabric manufacturer Besselfevre Fils & Cie, Maromme, (France) who bought it on 20th October 1919. Great for a designer.
A variety of exotic flowers wound round a thick thorny branch, and smaller varieties of fine tendrils, in shades of madder and indigo on a nautral cotton ground.
The straight side 39 x 16 - 23in; 1m x 40 - 58 cm
Repeat 13 in; 33 cm
You should be able to see that this length is slightly dirty and there are some stains. See photos.
Price: on request
Ref N°: 1578
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