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Saints and Poets
Nine and a half metres of sixteenth-century Assamese silk, showing the life of Krishna, sits in the British Museum. It was acquired from Tibet in 1904.
There is a piece of silk in the British Museum. Nine and a half metres of it.
It was woven in the sixteenth century in the foothills of the Himalayas, and it shows the life of Krishna. It was acquired from Tibet in 1904. It is the surviving fragment of a much larger cloth.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.