| Accession# |
R-010 |
| Artist |
Raniben Vankabhai |
| Culture |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Synthetic and cotton cloth, cotton threads, mirrors, rickrack.
CONSTRUCTION: Machine stitched., embroidered , square chain, interlaced, cretan, couched, , button hole , machhi kanto, romanian, herringbone stitches.
MOTIFS: Lodan mor, shravan, limbudi tak, phuli and mokre..
COLOURS : Multicoloured on dark green with orange.
STYLE REMARKS: The style here utilizes the three-sided border of the kothato; this was later eliminated. Compare with the earlier kothalo and kothali. The stitch repertoire is greatly reduced; square chain dominates, interlaced borders, and full of mirrors. These characteristics are typical of mid-era Rabari work, c. mid 1970's to mid 1980's. A contemporary motif, the Shravan is derived from older paniari motif. Motifs fit into squares and elongated Danta (teeth) were popular in the 1980's.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: the theli liself is relatively new to the Rabari repertoire of dowry items replacing the kothali. A theli is used by most embroidering communities of Kutch. It is a sort of status symbol to bring a decorated bag to town for shopping. The style announces the user's identity.
CULTURAL REMARKS: This kind of pleated edging is typical of all types of thelis.
Theli, Shopping bag. |
| Category |
Bags |
| Object Name |
Theli |
| Other Name |
Shopping bag |
| Sub-category |
Bags, Utilitarian |
| Provenance |
Ratadia, Ta. Mundra, Kutch, Gujarat.,India. |
| Search Terms |
Kachhi Rabari
Theli
Shopping bag
Rabari
Embroidery
1980 |
| Technique |
Embroidery : Rabari |
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