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Kothalo

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Accession# R-103
Artist Kachhi Rabari
Culture Kachhi Rabari
Description MATERIALS: Cotton cloth, cotton threads, mirrors and tassels.
CONSTRUCTION: Hand stitches, embroidered: square chain, cretan, interlaced, buttonhole. couched and romanian stitches.
MOTIFS: Kali tak, popti, makodiyun, limbudi tak, jharmar, mokre, kagra tak, bandhkaanch, goltak, phuldi, sudo, vichhi, kothalia no gul.
COLOURS : Multicoloured on cream, black and red.
STYLE REMARKS: Conventional patterns of middle style.
CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: The dowry bag was essential to namadic lifestyle, a lightwight and decorative means of bringing dowry goods to the in-laws.'
CULTURAL REMARKS: Smaller versions called kothali were used for smaller dowry items. A very large size, embroidered only on one end, was used to hold bedding. The kothalo was replaced by a metal trunk in the late 1970s.
Kothalo Bags, Dowry
Category Bags
Object Name Kothalo
Other Name Dowry Bag
Sub-category Bags, Dowry
Provenance Bocha Ta. Mundra, kutch, Gujarat, India.
Search Terms Kachhi Rabari
Kothalo
Kutch
Technique Embroidery :Rabari
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION ~ When using this image, the credit information should be in the following format: Image courtesy of the Kala Raksha Museum.

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Last modified on: February 22, 2013