Three men from Amritsar jail working at a carpet loom
1870
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1870
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Three men from Amritsar jail working at a carpet loom is a 1870 by John Lockwood Kipling, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows three men weaving a carpet in a jail. John Lockwood Kipling sketched it in 1870. He was an English artist who worked in India. Kipling studied art in London before moving to India. He liked to draw the many crafts he saw there. The jail in Amritsar made carpets at the time. Look up Lockwood Kipling, John next.
The drawing depicts three men, likely prisoners, seated at a loom in Amritsar jail around 1870, engaged in weaving pile carpets. Tools such as a beater for compacting the weft and a knife for trimming excess wool are visible near the weavers, while large scissors rest beside the rightmost figure for pile trimming. Created by John Lockwood Kipling, the work documents traditional carpet-weaving techniques in a declining industry. The sketch was later acquired by the Indian Museum in London before being transferred to the South Kensington Museum in 1879.
Read the full account in the museum source.
John Lockwood Kipling filled sketchbooks with the daily life he saw around him in British India, drawing craftsmen at work, farmers at market, and seed planters in fields.
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