Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India. Second series, 0065-0100 / prepared under the direction of J. Forbes Watson
A sample-book plate from J. Forbes Watson's Collection of specimens and illustrations of the textile manufactures of India, a second series issued by the India Museum for manufacturers and designers in Britain in the later nineteenth century. The pictures are photographic or chromolithographic records of woven cloth, showing stripe, check and banded borders in red, green, ochre and maroon. A designer can take from them the way narrow bands of pattern are stacked against plain fields in Indian woven garments.
