{"lastUpdated":1419243395666,"description":"List of entries","links":[{"rel":"alternate","length":0,"href":"https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/databases/textiles/catalogue/store/"},{"rel":"self","length":0,"href":"https://sitebuilder.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder2/api/dataentry/entries.json?page=%2Ffac%2Farts%2Fhistory%2Fghcc%2Feac%2Fdatabases%2Ftextiles%2Fcatalogue%2Fstore&title=102"}],"id":"https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/databases/textiles/catalogue/store/","categories":[],"title":"Data Store","publicationDate":1745474757916,"items":[{"metadata":"{\"published\":true,\"image\":[{\"url\":\"gurrah_p._145_1116_040.jpg\",\"imgnotes\":\"Swedish East India Company Sales Catalogue (1735), containing goods brought home by the ship Ulrica Elenora. Images from copy with textile samples, held in archive of the Danish West Indian Company (Vestindisk-Guineisk Kompagni), in the series: Charles Barringtons med Grevinden af Laurwigen hjemførte arkiv, 1725-1738, Volume 219, Danish National Archive (Rigsarkivet), Copenhagen. \"}],\"details\":{\"EICname\":\"Gurrah\",\"names\":\"Geras, Garras, Gurras\",\"place\":[\"India - Bengal\"],\"placeprod\":\"Jugdea\",\"dimensions\":\"2 yd x broadest, 3 cov x 2 1/8-1/4 cov, 4 cov x 2 1/4 cov, 5 1/2 cov x 3 cov, 6 1/2 cov x 3 cov, 6 1/2 cov x 5 cov, 15 yd x ?, 18 yd x ?, 36 yd x ?, 30 cov x ?, 36 cov x ?, 37 1/2 cov x ?, 72 cov x ?, 75 cov x ?, \",\"market\":\"English\"},\"notes\":{\"notes\":\"The shorter length Gurrahs ordered as sheets, often to be thick. Some of these to be \\\"common, unbeat, without Congee\\\".\\r\\n\\r\\nFlorence Montgomery, p.254: 'Plain cotton cloth made in north east India (Irwin and Schwarz). It was used in England and France in the eighteenth century for coarse printing (Wadsworth and Mann, p.163). A memoir of about 1758, probably written in Rouen, stated 'on a cherché en France imiter les Garats, sortes de Toile des Indes la plus adaptée a l'impression' (Kress, S4130). It was also used for table linen and other household purposes. For swatches of gurrah, see John Forbes Watson, 8: nos 297,299, 300, 302 300; 'The name gera was probably derived from Hindi garha. In west India it was khadi: an undecorated white cloth, some of which were bleached. There was an obvious quality difference if more or less thread was used. Sometimes it was specified that one cloth should weigh five pounds. The English exported the geras from Madras to Manila. The Dutch exported them from Bengal to Japan in large quantities. It was often listed as belonging to the set to calicoes to which salempore and guinees cloth belonged. In India it provided clothing for the poor. In Europe it was used for everyday household linen, for example tablecloths. Wellington, p.221 Guras: Printed cloth from Bengal (Savary, 2, 296).\",\"contemporary\":\"A sample of a gurrah can be seen in the Swedish East India Company Sales Catalog (1735), containing goods brought home by the ship Ulrica Elenora, held in archive of the Danish West Indian Company (Vestindisk-Guineisk Kompagni), in the series: Charles Barringtons med Grevinden af Laurwigen hjemførte arkiv, 1725-1738, Volume 219, Danish National Archive (Rigsarkivet), Copenhagen. \"}}","title":"102","enclosures":[],"url":{"rel":"self","length":0,"href":"https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/ghcc/eac/databases/textiles/catalogue/store/?selectedLetter=num#def-102"},"content":"","script":"","entryId":"094d43a2407dbf6301409ce5eb711739","lastUpdated":1417687171186,"anchor":"def-102","parsedContentBody":"","id":"094d43a2407dbf6301409ce5eb711739","categories":[],"publicationDate":1417687171186,"authors":[{"name":"David Beck"}]}],"authors":[{"name":"David Beck"}]}