Embroidered jacket. [FC 28/07/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Embroidered jacket. [FC 28/07/2010]
Long description: Embroidered jacket. The jacket is made from four pieces of loom woven hessian seamed in the centre and loosely stitched together on both sides. The jacket comprises of a sleeveless cape with collar tacked to a collarless underlayer of hessian. The decoration on the cape is made up of strips of red, black, white, yellow and blue appliquéd cotton strips, which surround rectangles and squares embroidered in white, red, orange and green cross stitch motifs. The deceptively complicated design employs embroidered panels, framed within striped boarders. It is unified by the repetition of the same red and green in both elements. [FC 28/07/2010]
Geographical reference: China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China; Guizhou Province Quiling village
Cultural groups: Hmong
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 Plant Fibre Textile, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Process Stitched, Process Dyed, Process Woven, Process Appliqué, Process Embroidered
Dimensions: Width: max 840 mm from sleeve to sleeve, Length: max 825 mm from hem to neck
Object numbers: Accession number: 2010.3.19 Other numbers: 43

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