LENGTH OF MASHRU Woven silk and cotton Aurangabad, Maharashtra c. 1851 This length of flower-patterned mashru, a speciality of Aurangabad, was displayed at the Great Exhibition of 1851. It was one of the first textiles purchased by the South Kensington Museum (now the V&A). The British designer Owen Jones included its pattern in his 1856 publication The Grammar of Ornament, which became a seminal text on the principles of design. [01/08/2017]