Repeat 40,5 x 22 cm. Width 145 cm.
Original: Woman’s short loose gown ”Kofta”, Fornsalen, county museum of Gotland, Visby, inv. nr. 24.
Block print on cotton. The fabric has first been printed with reserve paste and dyed red, then printed with black, finally the yellow and grey details were hand painted.
The fabric could be dated to the mid 18th century. Similar sampling prints on paper are kept in the Anders Berch collection, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm, and in the printer Lang’s collection, Fornsalen, county museum of Gotland, Visby.