Peshgeer

Peshgeer is one of the obsolete cotton piece goods produced in the Indian subcontinent. Peshgeer was a type of woven, printed material.

Mentions

John Forbes Watson describes Peshgeer as cotton printed cloth made of English threads, used in "petticoats of poorer classes". A sample in Fabric book gives its origin as Shikarpore, in the Sind province of Pakistan.[1][2][3]

Price

In the mid-1800s, Palle-manufactured Peshgeer was priced in the range of Rs 22-40/piece.[4][5]

References

  1. ^ Watson, John Forbes (1867). The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India. Allen.
  2. ^ Driver, Felix; Ashmore, Sonia (2010). "The Mobile Museum: Collecting and Circulating Indian Textiles in Victorian Britain". Victorian Studies. 52 (3): 353–385. doi:10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.353. ISSN 0042-5222. JSTOR 10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.353. S2CID 145766578.
  3. ^ Museum, Victoria and Albert. "Printed Cotton | V&A Explore The Collections". Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. Retrieved 2021-07-12.
  4. ^ The Bombay Miscellany. 1962. p. 172.
  5. ^ Burnes, Sir Alexander (1839). Reports and Papers, Political, Geographical, & Commercial Submitted to Government by Alexander Burnes, Lieutenant Leech, Doctor Lord, and Lieutenant Wood, Employed on Missions in the Years 1835-36-37 in Scinde, Affghanisthan, and Adjacent Countries. G.H. Huttmann, Bengal Military Orphan Press. p. 179.


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