LONG, RECTANGULAR HANDLE IS NAILED TO STAMP PAD WITH A CONNECTING SQUARE PIECE OF WOOD. SQUARE STAMP PAD HAS LOW-RELIEF DESIGN OF 4 ROWS OF EIGHT-POINT STARS WITH 4 STARS TO EACH ROW. ACCORDING TO DR.

In the museum's textile collection are over 400 of these curious blocks. What were they used for and when did they come to us? During the late 1850s and 1860s these blocks were used to stamp ...

In Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad district, textile printing is shaped by a long-standing craft tradition where the tools of the trade are as important as the fabric itself. The district is widely known ...