Gold Cloths of Sumatra
₨7800
Phulkari is a very refined embroidery work of Punjab and Haryana. It has more emotional social and cultural value which is very rare. Embroidered with silk thread on cotton base, phulkari is a shawl made by the mother for her young daughter-in-law. Phulkari literally means floral work and is also called Bagh, which literally means a garden.
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about the author
Susan Rodgers is professor of anthropology at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. She is the author of Telling Lives, Telling History: Autobiography and Historical Imagination in Indonesia.
Anne Summerfield and John Summerfield are the authors of Walk in Splendor: Ceremonial Dress and the Minangkabau. Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross.
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Dimensions | 21 × 1 × 27 cm |
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