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MATERIALS: Cotton silk, mashru and Synthetic cloth, cotton and silk threads, mirrors and tassels. CONSTRUCTION: Machine stitched, embroidered: square chain, cretan, interlaced, detached chain, back, double buttonhole, herringbone, buttonhole filling, buttonhole and romanian stitches. MOTIFS: Popti, goltak, makodiyun, kori ghodi goto, tak bawaliyun, gotto, butti and ardho gotto. COLOURS : Multicoloured on black and red. STYLE REMARKS: Borders are traditional to toran. Field motifs were popular during middle perion. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: The toran is used throughout western india as an auspicious welcoming. The simplest version is a string of auspicious leaves, here represented by the mashru ''leaves.'' CULTURAL REMARKS: Rabaris use a toran as part of a seven piece set that decorates the doorway and walls between outer and inner rooms of their house. Toran DoorWays
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Last modified on: February 22, 2013