Kalamkari Hanging with Figures in an Architectural Setting, ca. 1640–50, Attributed to India, Deccan, Cotton; plain weave, mordant-painted and dyed, resist-dyed, Textile: L. 100 in. (254 cm), Textiles-Painted and/or Printed, Kalamkari, a multistep process for dying textiles by applying each color with a stylus (kalam) or by using resists, is a specialty of the Deccan region of India. Although the region produced many types of dyed textiles for export to Europe and Southeast Asia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, this hanging is one of a small group decorated with multiple figures, made only in the early 1600s
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Kalamkari Hanging, Figures, Architectural Setting, ca, 1640–50, Attributed, India, Deccan, Cotton, plain weave, mordant-painted, dyed, resist-dyed, Textile, L, 100, 254 cm, Textiles-Painted / Printed, Kalamkari, multistep process, dying textiles, applying, color, stylus, kalam, using resists, specialty, Deccan region, region produced, types, dyed, export, Europe, Southeast Asia, seventeenth, nineteenth centuries, hanging, small group decorated, multiple figures, early 1600s
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