Phulkari : the embroidered textiles of Punjab from the Jill and Sheldon Bonovitz collection / edited by Darielle Mason ; with essays by Cristin McKnight Sethi and Darielle Mason.

Exquisite and labor-intensive, phulkari ("floral-work" or "flower-craft") embroideries were originally produced by women in towns and villages across the greater Punjab, a region that today straddles Pakistan and India, from at least the early 19th century into the first decades of the 20th. Phulkar...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Philadelphia Museum of Art (Host institution)
Other Authors: Mason, Darielle (Editor, Writer of supplementary textual content)
Sethi, Cristin McKnight (Writer of supplementary textual content)
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : New Haven : Philadelphia Museum of Art ; In association with Yale University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Bonovitz, Sheldon M. > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Bonovitz, Jill > (Jill F.) > Art collections > Exhibitions.
Bonovitz, Jill > (Jill F.)
Bonovitz, Sheldon M.
Embroidery > India > Punjab > Exhibitions.
Art > Private collections.
Embroidery.
India > Punjab.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:96 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 23 x 30 cm
Format: Book

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