Textile

Embroidery from Kashmir (kashida) worked in chain stitch with a hook (ari) on a plain cotton ground, likely intended for household furnishings. The technique and style of this embroidered floral design shows a relationship with chain stitch embroideries made in courtly Mughal karkhana (workshops) and in Gujarat for export to Europe as well as with English crewelwork, which had in the late seventeenth century become influenced by imports of Indian cotton chintz textiles from India (kalamkari from the southeastern coast). Cream colored with foral design, embroidered along one of its long ends. Made under court patronage. European influence.