[Woman at loom]

K. Lall & Co. were a publisher of interesting real photo postcards, like this one of a cotton spinner, whose flat composition speaks to a style of portrait photography not common among photographers. Perhaps it had to do with being a little outside the Delhi/Simla axis (K. Lall & Co. also had a branch in Chakrata, a lesser cantonment). This is much closer to the miniature technique of collapsing objects in one place so that everything is foregrounded, and it feels quite real to have the woman perched on her device even as the palm backdrop makes clear that this is a studio portrait, and the cotton spinning wheel had been set up there.