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Dress fabric with Beetle-Wing Embroidery, ca. 1855

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Dress fabric with Beetle-Wing Embroidery

Place of origin:
Hyderabad, India (made)

Date:
ca. 1855 (made)

Artist/Maker:
unknown (production)

Materials and Techniques:
Cotton net with embroidery, gold-wrapped thread or gold wire, with applied strips of metal and pieces of beetle-wing

Museum number:
4411(IS)

Victoria & Albert Museum 

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