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Posted On: November 2nd 2026, 01:33 pm
Beetle wing embroidery dress fabric
Made c. 1858
Hyderabad, India

Collection of Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Viewed using Order an Object service
Accession no. 4498:1/(IS)
www.collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O477176/dress-fabric/
Comments (267)
sejal.dagli 38 minutes ago

sejal.dagli

@shreyaghodawat

nacre_layerno.200 5 hours ago

nacre_layerno.200

How does this affect the beetle population?

pause.and.edit 7 hours ago

pause.and.edit

Thats just cruel. Humans are so unnecesserily cruel

alkshree 11 hours ago

alkshree

Thanks for Every Time Giving interesting And Authentic Content 👏🙏🏻❤️

sangeetaamkhanna 12 hours ago

sangeetaamkhanna

The chitinous origin of salma-sitara 😍

ecstatic_elation 13 hours ago

ecstatic_elation

But this is cruel

anweshasharma.08 a day ago

anweshasharma.08

That means they must be killing so many... 😒 never knew about this...

devybee a day ago

devybee

We used to have gold tortoise beetle growing up in our backyards

hayatizahoor a day ago
wahi.bonny a day ago

wahi.bonny

Poor beetles 😢

rosewhiteman786 a day ago

rosewhiteman786

Vomit 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

renuappachu a day ago

renuappachu

It should be banned. Such cruelty is not worth it.

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