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Description
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| MATERIALS:Cotton, mashru and silk cloth, cotton and silk threads, mirrors and tassels. CONSTRUCTION: Hand and machine stitched, embroidered, chain, cretan, interlaced, buttonhole filling, detached chain, herringbone, double buttonhole stitches. MOTIFS: Popti, makodiyun, tak bawaliyun, limbudi tak, kori ghodi gotto, jharmar, sudo and gotto. COLOURS : Multicoloured on black and red. STYLE REMARKS: This is oldest existiong style. Border and centre motifs are conventional derieved from Mochi work. Stitching is very fine. 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 masru ''leaves.'' CULTURAL REMARKS: Rabaris use a toran as part of a seven piece set thet decorates the doorway and walls between outer and inner rooms of their house. In early style Kachhis and Dhebharias Work very similar. Compar to R-98. Toran, DoorWays. |
Toran
-Rabari Arts
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COPYRIGHT INFORMATION ~ When using this image, the credit information should be in the following format: Image courtesy of the Kala Raksha Museum.
COPYRIGHT INFORMATION ~ When using this image, the credit information should be in the following format: Image courtesy of the Kala Raksha Museum.