£ 280.00
230 x 138 cm // 7ft 10" x 4ft 3"
Comprising of two panels this doubleweave
was made in Nasarpur present day Sindh in Pakistan and appears virtually unused. Khes is a general term in both Sindhi and Punjabi for a thin blanket. A very similar one used in a Karachi Jail in 1881 and now part of the V&A collection is 210-1883 (collected 1883). The manufacturing endeavour with such cotton double weaves was purportedly a British enterprise initially.
The Victoria & Albert Museum piece 210-1883 was published in the 1997/8 book catalogue COLOURS OF THE INDUS Nasreen Askari and Rosemary Crill, plate 85 also see other examples plates 83, 84 and 86.
Condition: There are several stains on the peice we are trying to rectify - shown in last series of detail photos
• circa 1880
Ref. 16676
