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 dyeing of fabrics in red. In the foreground children from the dyer family pose for a photo. Behind them lies spread out on the ground a long cloth to dry. In the background is a street, a couch, a house and a goat. The production process of colored fabrics consists of dyeing and printing. At the first stage, you dye fabric, then with blocks of woodcut print 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 - a man with his wife and children

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 7/2, 0024

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