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Untitled (Two Kashmiri women making silk)

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Date

19th Century

Description

Watercolour painting with a pen and ink border of two Kashmiri women making silk. One woman is seated on the floor and wears a yellow dress with a white head dress. She holds a cocoon in her hand and has a pot containing more cocoons in front of her. To her left is a woman using a spinning wheel to unreel the cocoons, which she is holding in her left hand. She wears a green tunic and a yellow headdress. She has two containers next to her, filled with cocoons.

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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Location

Jammu and Kashmir

Medium

Watercolour