A COVER OF CHERRY RED SATIN SILK
North India, late 19th - early 20th century

Of rectangular shape, the delicate pure metal thread embroidery worked in a variety of stitches and employing a range of yellow and white tape, coil and spring, the edges and borders worked delicately with spraying floral decorations revealing a plain oval field, edged with metallic thread fringe wound around a silk core, lined in plain red silk, 59cm x 109cm excluding the fringe.