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| Keywords: Vrindavani Vastra.jpg en One such magnificent example originally from Assam in northeastern India and known as the Vrindavani Vastra the Cloth of Vrindavan features in the current exhibition ˜Krishna in the Garden of Assam the Cultural Context of an Indian Textile ™ until 15 August 2016 at the British Museum Given by Landon to the museum in 1905 it is made of woven silk and is now believed to be of late 17th century date though when it was found no one ventured any date for it Further we now know it to be from Assam though when acquired by the museum it was assumed to be Tibetan “ despite the many identificatory captions and in one area an eleven-line verse repeatedly woven into it in Assamese characters More than nine metres in length today this extraordinary textile is made up of twelve separate strips of cloth each about 80 cm wide that are now stitched together This assembly almost certainly happened when the strips were taken to and re-used in southern Tibet “ they ended up in the Monastery of Gobshi near Gyantse At that time lengths of brocade and damask were added along the top of the cloth and above this metal hanging rings attached http //www hali com/news/hali-187-tales-far-magic-unrolled/ Unknown Assam weaver ~ 1680 PD-old-100 1680s works in Asia Art of Assam Lampas weave Department of Asia British Museum Files uploaded by PDTillman 17th-century textiles Assamese language | ||||
