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| Picture No | 10678045 |
| Date | 1902 |
| Description | Queen Alexandra's coronation dress worked in India |
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The superb overdress of Indian embroidery which was made for Queen Alexandra's Coronation costume, being worked during the winter of 1901-2 in Delhi by forty of the most skilled needleworkers at the firm of Manick Chand. Picture shows a number of the workers seated around their embroidery table consisting of a couple slight wooden trestles and four wooden bamboos, the worth of the whole, according to the Graphic, being about ninepence.
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| Source | Photograph by Roberts of Delhi in The Graphic, 12 July 1902, page 62 |
| Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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