- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Embroidered back apron. [FB 08/06/2012]
- Long description
- Embroidered back apron. The apron is made from indigo dyed cotton textile calandered on the front. A panel in the centre of the apron has been embroidered with strips of white metal wrapped onto a grid of back stitches, surrounded with lozenge shaped eyelets in faded pink and purple floss silk. The rest of apron is decorated with a woven textile with striped pattern in muted tones of blue, red and black. Twisted cotton ties have been stitched at two corners of the apron. [FB 08/06/2012]
- Geographical reference
- East Guizhou Province Nanzhai City near Jianhe Liufu Village
- Cultural groups
- Hmong
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 09/1996
- Date collected
- September 1996
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 2006
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Material Pigment, Material Metal, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Width: max 135 mm, Length: max 382 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2009.135.96 Other numbers: 183
- Research and responses
See Miao Costumes from Guizhou Province South West China by Deryn O' Connor. Catalogue of an exhibition at James Hockney Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham.
Calandering makes the indigo dyed cloth shiny and is prized by the Miao. It is done by folding the material and beating it with a wooden mallet on a flay stone. [FB 01/06/2012]
- Associated publications
- Miao Costumes from Guizhou Province South West China by Deryn O' Connor. Catalogue of an exhibition at James Hockney Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham. [FB 08/05/2012]
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