Door hanging (toran)

Object Details

• Label

  This is an embroidered toran with 9 pointed pendants. The frieze is done in dense darning stitches and discs of mirror glass and is probably embroidered by a mahajan and assembled by a tailor who added the pendants. It was made by and for the use of the mahajans, a trader caste, in the Saurashtra region of Gujarat.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Origin

  Gujarat state, India

• Credit Line

  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. M. Bryant

• Type

  Costume and Textile

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1900s, 1890s

• Place

  Gujarat state, India

• Topic

  South Asian and Himalayan Art, Embroidery, Art

• Culture

  Himalayan peoples, South Asians

• Object Type

  Costume, Textiles