2010.3.11

Collection type

Object

Description

Child's hat. [FC 28/06/2010]

Long description

Child's hat. The hat is made in several sections mainly from silk satin textile. The inside of the hat is lined with white cotton textile and padded and edged with black cotton textile. The outside of the hat hat has been embroidered with floral motifs and silk tassels. The back of the hat is semicircular and is made from red silk textile. Black cotton textile has been machine stitched around the edge with a narrow braid of white and purple yarn in the centre. Above this is an embroidered ribbon approximately 30 mm wide embroidered in green, white and maroon silk yarn with geometric shapes. Two lengths of green silk textile have been stitched from the circular ear flaps o he hat to overhang at the back. The tail parts are approximately 360 mm long and have been embroidered with bold floral motifs in silk yarn in stain stitch in pink, orange, red, purple, yellow, green and blue. The tips are pointed and the embroidery is on a background of red silk textile instead of green. The embroidery is boarded by a narrow braid of purple and white stitching. The back of the tail parts are covered with a floral printed textile in blue, white, red and black. Two circular pieces of embroidery cover the ear flaps of the hat. They are embroidered in pink, red, orange, yellow and green silk yarn in satin stitch with a floral design. Both circles are edges with brocaded silk textile. The top of the hat is made from red silk textile and covered with a circular panel of appliquéd embroidery. This panel is not entirely circular with scalloped edges on one side and two protruding pointed parts, one on either side. The silk textile is red in colour and has silk textile shapes appliquéd on with spiral shapes embroidered in silk yarn and metallic yarn. Hanging from the back of this piece of appliquéd embroidered textile are silk tassels in orange silk yarn with green, pink, yellow and red yarn woven through the top. A further panel of embroidery has been stitched to the front of the hat making the hat peaked. The top edge of this is scalloped and stiffened with card. This piece has been embroidered with silk textile chain stitch, satin stitch and two needle stitch with floral motifs outlined with couched silk gimp thread. The back of this decorative panel is cotton textile printed with a floral design orange, yellow, purple, white and black. [FC 28/06/2010]

Geographical reference

China

Asia > Eastern Asia > China

Guizhou Province Lanzi village

Cultural groups

Buyei

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Wendy Black

PRM source Wendy Black

Date

Date collected

April 1993

Acquisition information

Donated: 19/01/2010

Materials and processes

Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Material Silk Textile Animal, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Material Synthetic, Material Cardboard Paper Plant, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered, Process Woven, Process Appliqué, Process Braided

Dimensions

Width: max 230 mm, Length: max 550 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2010.3.11 Other numbers: 24

Research and responses

Notes from Jennie Parry taken during a talk given about this collection by Wendy Black and Julia Nicholson for the Oxford Asian Textile Group on the 22nd September 2010: Jennie Parry observed that the edging on the tabs of the hat are an unusual braid, made from dark purple and white yarn, the same braid also appears further in on top of the hat. See Jacqui Carey's book "Chinese Braid Embroidery", (Carey Co, 2007). [FC 07/10/2010]

Though Wendy Black purchased this hat from a Miao village the hat looks more traditionally Han Chinese in style , type of embroidery and material rather than Miao. [FC 07/10/2010]

Search terms: Clothing, Clothing Headgear, Children and Childcare, Ornament, Hat, Headgear, Head Ornament