Description (Labels & Markings)
Handwritten label attached to the mat with string reads: '1918:215 (12) / Ceylon / Stanmore Colln. 1912'
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Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Other owners)
(Bio) Lord Stanmore
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
K. Sutton: Catalogue Card and Accession Register read: "Seven mats, including four oblong with coloured horizontal strips or bands."
Event Date 21/11/2000
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Mat, made from woven plant fibre, which have been dyed blue, green red and purple. Geometric patterns within the weave, which include diamonds and stylised birds. The background colour of the mat is yellow. Slight fringing, in buff and pink dyed plant fibre, at the ends of the mat where the pattern breaks down into stripes.
Event Date 23/11/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue Card reads:

'1918.(E) 215 (7-13). SRI LANKA.

Seven mats, including 4 oblong with coloured horizontal stripes or bands.

Stanmore Colln. 1912'
Event Date 9/9/2019
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
A rectangular plant fibre mat, woven in red, blue, purple, yellow, green, brown and natural coloured fibres. It is woven with stripes, wide bands of geometric patterns, and a central panel woven with birds within rectangles.
Event Date 10/7/2023
Author: Emily Shorter