Abstract
This study is based on the collection of Chambā Rumāls in the Lahore
Museum on the Mall road, Lahore. The survey has been taken in the Textile
and Ethnological Gallery of the Museum which houses these beautiful
specimens of embroidery belonging to the eighteenth and nineteenth
century. The craft belongs to a hill state of Himachal Pradesh, India. This
research is a documentation of this dying art which is losing its beauty thread
by thread with the folding pages of time. The present condition of some is
vulnerable and close to complete decay. The twenty-one beautiful
specimens uncover the culture, religious values and history of the area they
belong to. The study encompasses the history, subject matter, intrinsic and
extrinsic analysis of the specimens at display in the show cases as well as
those stored in the storage area of the museum. Illustrating some scenes from
the Indian religious mythology, the rumāls appear to be small textile
miniature paintings. The compositions are according to the shape and sizes
of the base fabric whereas the drafting techniques are very close to those of
the miniature paintings produced in the same era. The research further
connects the similarities in drawing, motifs and subject matter of the
miniature paintings and rumāls at Chambā, a hill state of Himachal Pradesh.
Mahrukh Khan. (2015) Krishna Playing Flute: A Chambā Rumāl at the Lahore Museum, Journal of Arts and Social sciences, Volume 2, Issue 2.
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