India. Silk on linen… Mughal era..? Mindblowing fine and beautiful thistle! A flower bud is only slightly larger than a normal sized match… From V&A museum website the following: “… professional male embroiderers from Gujarat in western India, an area famed even today for its fine embroidery. The craftsmen were of the Mochi community, originally workers in leather, who adapted the chain-stitch they used to decorate shoes and horse-trappings to embroidery on cloth. Their work was so fine that it was sought after by the Mughal court and also traded to Europe through the East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.”
Size: 55 x 53 cm
Please refer to the item number above (#000)
