1800 - 1850 Quilted Indian Prayer Mat
date: label: date made
content: 1800-1850
name: label: maker
content: unknown
notes: label: Description
content: This intricately designed prayer mat was produced in India and quilted in the first half of the 19th century. The top is a single piece of fabric; a central mihrab (prayer niche) with floral motifs that is framed by several printed borders of various widths. The cotton fabric used for the prayer mat is block-printed, hand-printed, resist-printed, and dyed. Black outlines of stems and leaves and red outlines of flowers are block-printed with a series of small blocks. Resist-painted details were added to flowers before red-dyeing. Blue color appears to be painted. Painted yellow appears in the mihrab and some other areas. The lining is a roller-printed cotton with a small overall floral pattern. It has a cotton filling. The quilting consists of parallel diagonal lines in a running stitch. It is bound with a silk/cotton bias strip. Printed cotton prayer mats were sold and used across the Islamic world.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: India
topic: label: Subject
content: Quilting
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Religion
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content: Textiles
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content: Quilts
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T14440
label: catalog number
content: T14440
label: accession number
content: 275379
objectType: label: Object Name
content: mat, quilted
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fabric, cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: thread, cotton, silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: filling, cotton (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 53 in x 33 in; 135 cm x 84 cm