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 the first stage of the production of colored fabrics - preparing them for painting. On the ground there are white fabric and next big barrels of paint. 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:

text/html

Source:

part 1, box 7/2, 0029

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