Man's Angarkha (Outer Robe)
1775–1825
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; pieced
- Dimensions
- 128.3 × 92.7 cm (50 1/2 × 36 1/2 in.)
- Genre
- Costume
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
19th centurycotton (textile)muslinclothinggarmentcostumeweaving18th Centuryplain weavinghand woven
About
Indian cotton weavers have been creating delicate, sheer textiles for hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Elite men and women on the Indian subcontinent valued such fine, cotton muslin or mulmul—a specialty of Bengal that was made entirely by hand—for fashionable clothing.