Watercolour painting with a pen and ink border of a woman spinning cotton and a man weaving. The man is seated in front of a large frame loom. He wears a white tunic with a shawl crossed over his chest and a red turban. He is weaving a white piece of fabric on the loom. To his right sits a woman wearing yellow trousers and a red tunic and green shawl which covers her head. She is spinning cotton.
Sikh Style
19thC
© Trustees of the British Museum
very clean drawing
Sikh Weaver, called 'Julaha'
Lovely..................
Julaha is term usually used for a Muslim weaver.
Trousers - churidar. Shawl - Odhni / chunni.....nicer to use the real terms
Such a beautiful picture and well preserved!
Wow! So beautifullllll!Tks! precious!