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Cotton was known to Indian as कर्पास From Pali kappāsa (“cotton”), from Sanskrit कर्पास (karpāsa, “cotton”), [citation needed] India had been an exporter of fine cotton fabrics to other countries since ancient times. Sources such as Marco Polo, who traveled throughout India in the 13th century, Chinese ...
Height about 1 meter. Tokyo National Museum. History of clothing in the Indian subcontinent can be traced to the Indus Valley civilization or earlier. Indians have mainly worn clothing made up of locally grown cotton. India was one of the first places where cotton was cultivated and used even as early as 2500 BCE during the Harappan era.
The museum was founded in 1949 [2] by the enterprising siblings Gautam Sarabhai and Gira Sarabhai. Ahmedabad at that time had a flourishing textile industry. The museum was originally housed at the Calico Mills in the heart of the textile industry. But as the collection grew the museum was shifted to the Sarabhai House in Shahibaug in 1983. [3]
For half a century, the Calico Mills became one of the most modern and extensively diversified pacesetters of the Indian cotton industry. Calico was the first Indian mill to give shareholders cloth at concessional rates. It was the first Indian textile mill to make cotton sewing thread, and later 100% synthetic sewing thread. [1]
Sanskriti Museums are a set of three museums namely, Museum of ‘Everyday Art’, Museum of Indian Terracotta and Textile Museum.It is housed within Sanskriti Kendra complex, at Anandagram, [1] an artist village complex, spread over eight acres, situated 10 km south of New Delhi, [2] [3] near Aya Nagar on Mehrauli–Gurgaon Road, on the outskirts of Delhi. [4]
Records seen by Metropolitan Museum of Art researcher Kai Toussaint Marcel show that Portuguese merchants traded the Indian fabric in North Africa and the Middle East as far back as the 13th ...
Woodblock, India, about 1900 An Indian printing block at the Horniman Museum.Identical for Indian ethnic groups like chhipi, chhimba, chhapola. Printing patterns on textile is closely related to other methods of fabric manipulation, such as by painting, dyeing, and weaving.
The museum is popular for an exhaustive collection of textiles. [10] The museum also houses a village complex spread over 5-acre (20,000 m 2), with 15 structures representing village dwellings, courtyards and shrines from different states of India, with items of day-to-day life displayed. The entire village complex is a remnant of a temporary ...