Peshgeer
{{Short description|Cotton printed cloth made of English threads, used for petticoats for poor people.}}
Peshgeer is one of the obsolete cotton piece goods produced in the Indian subcontinent. Peshgeer was a type of woven, printed material.
Mentions
John Forbes Watson describes Peshgeer as cotton printed cloth made of English threads, used in "petticoats of poorer classes". A sample in Fabric book gives its origin as Shikarpore, in the Sind province of Pakistan.{{Cite book|last=Watson|first=John Forbes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g2XL2CJewPAC&q=Peshgeer+english+thread&pg=PA160|title=The Textile Manufactures and the Costumes of the People of India|date=1867|publisher=Allen|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last1=Driver|first1=Felix|last2=Ashmore|first2=Sonia|date=2010|title=The Mobile Museum: Collecting and Circulating Indian Textiles in Victorian Britain|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.353|journal=Victorian Studies|volume=52|issue=3|pages=353–385|doi=10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.353|jstor=10.2979/vic.2010.52.3.353|s2cid=145766578|issn=0042-5222}}{{Cite web|last=Museum|first=Victoria and Albert|title=Printed Cotton {{!}} V&A Explore The Collections|url=https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O476144/printed-cotton/|access-date=2021-07-12|website=Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections|language=en}}
Price
In the mid-1800s, Palle-manufactured Peshgeer was priced in the range of Rs 22-40/piece.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H5VJxtFecccC&q=Peshgeer+cloth|title=The Bombay Miscellany|date=1962|pages=172|language=en}}{{Cite book|last=Burnes|first=Sir Alexander|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUhxU7Amx5UC&q=Peshgeer+cloth|title=Reports and Papers, Political, Geographical, & Commercial Submitted to Government by Alexander Burnes, Lieutenant Leech, Doctor Lord, and Lieutenant Wood, Employed on Missions in the Years 1835-36-37 in Scinde, Affghanisthan, and Adjacent Countries|date=1839|publisher=G.H. Huttmann, Bengal Military Orphan Press|pages=179|language=en}}