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Jat Woman's Dress
1800s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: Jat Woman's Dress
- Date Created: 1800s
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 129 x 103 cm (50 13/16 x 40 9/16 in.)
- Type: Garment
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1467
- Medium: silk embellished with mirror work and embroidered with silk in open-chain, stem, basket, and running stitch
- Fun Fact: Pieces of mirror, called <em>abhla</em> in Hindi or <em>shisha</em> in Persian, were favorite embellishments to embroideries and accessories in western India and Afghanistan.
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Western India, Gujarat, possibly Kutch
- Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade
- Collection: Textiles
- Accession Number: 1916.1467
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