| Accession# |
R-080 |
| Artist |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Culture |
Kachhi Rabari |
| Description |
MATERIALS: Synthetic cloth, cotton cloth, buttons, beads, tassels, sequins, rickrack, metallic briad, and cotton threads.
CONSTRUCTION: Loom width fabtic has border added, machine embroidery and hand embroidery; square chain, interlaced, buttonhole, cretan, romanian stitches.
MOTIFS: Kabat, lodan mor, sharavan, mindadi, goto, chaini and mor.
COLOURS :Multicoloured on green with pink.
STYLE REMARKS: Bold outlined motifs were fashionable in late 1980's. This style is shared by Dhebharia. The machine stitching up the centre is gratuitous. It simulates joining used for larger pieces such as ludi. Similarly although the two medallions are embroidered directly on cloth, braid is attached around them to simulate the newer fashion of stitching patches onto the ludi. This illustrates how functional elements are turned into asthetics. Some unusual elements of emboiderery are buttonhole stitches for attaching mirrors and romanian stitch for silling areas.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: Its used as baby carrier and also veil for young girls. Given as a gift to the mother of a newborn.
CULTURAL REMARKS: Paniyo is a general term for a loom width cloth (from Panno). The green colour became fashionable amoung Rabaris during the 1980's. Previously black and maroon were used.
Paniyo, Girl's odhani. |
| Category |
3: Personal Artifacts |
| Object Name |
Paniyo |
| Other Name |
Girl's odhani |
| Sub-category |
Clothing -- Outerwear |
| Provenance |
Bhopani Vandh, kutch, Gujarat, India. |
| Search Terms |
Paniyo
Girl's odhani
Kachhi Rabari
Kutch |
| Technique |
Embroidery :Rabari |
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