Title:

Manufacture of textiles - dyeing and printing, Rajasthan (Iconographic document)

Creator:

Demski, Dagnosław

Place of publishing:

Ajmer ; Ajmer District ; Rajasthan

Date issued/created:

[1986]

Description:

Photography (scan from a slide). In the picture is a woman belonging to the family of dyers. On the head holds the scroll of dyed white fabric and in her hands similar fabric but already after the process of printing. The production process of colored fabrics consists of dyeing and printing. At the first stage, you dye fabric, then with blocks of woodcut prints in a variety of patterns. This entire process takes place in the district on the outskirts of the city of weavers, and work is done by members of one family

Type of object:

Ethnographic object

Subject and Keywords:

ethnography ; social culture ; social life ; material culture ; dyeing fabric ; Rajasthan

Resource type:

Obraz

Detailed Resource Type:

Photography

Format:

image/jpeg

Source:

part 1, box 7/1, 0018

Rights:

Rights Reserved - Free Access

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. May be used within the limits of statutory user freedoms

Digitizing institution:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Projects co-financed by:

Programme Innovative Economy, 2010-2014, Priority Axis 2. R&D infrastructure ; European Union. European Regional Development Fund

Access:

Open