Indian Benares / Lucknow silk & silver brocade skirt

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Length: 91 cm  //  3ft

In the hem or border at the bottom of the skirt depictions of maidens can be seen wearing flowing sarees with stoles each bearing flowers and a stripped flag. This  flag configeration is not that of the modern Indian stripped flag indicating a pre 1947 date.

This weft pattern brocade uses thin floss sik has fine flat silver flex which is hardly twisted into it and laid almost parallel alternating with a yarn more dominantly silver in smaller sections. That is the fact the silk itself produces a beguiling result.

The skirt is lined with an indo cloth on the bias to the fall.

• early 20th C

Ref. 17030