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Benares, India (Weavers Preparing Threads on a Loom)

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Bold diagonals are created by the stretched warps of a loom in the lower right of the composition and by a road running parallel to them above. Two men in the foreground count and separate warp threads while four other men tend the loom behind them. In the street above, a man in a white shirt and lungi walks down the street by a row of houses, leading the viewer's eye deeper into the airy composition.
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art Howard Greenberg Gallery. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Purchase through the generosity of Jose M. Soriano
Title: Benares, India (Weavers Preparing Threads on a Loom)
Description:
Bold diagonals are created by the stretched warps of a loom in the lower right of the composition and by a road running parallel to them above.
Two men in the foreground count and separate warp threads while four other men tend the loom behind them.
In the street above, a man in a white shirt and lungi walks down the street by a row of houses, leading the viewer's eye deeper into the airy composition.

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