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2009.135.110

Embroidered baby carrier. [FB 08/06/2012]

2009.135.110

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Collection type
Object
Description
Embroidered baby carrier. [FB 08/06/2012]
Long description
Embroidered baby carrier. The baby carrier is made from black twill? woven cotton calandered in places making the surface shiny. The baby carrier is made in two rectangular pieces joined in the centre. The baby carrier has been embroidered in the centre with yellow and white silk yarn couched in curvilinear designs on a red cotton background with embroidered patterns in chain stitch in green, yellow and blue on one piece. The other piece of the baby carrier is embroidered similarly on a red cotton ground edged with appliquéd lengths of turquoise, blue and white cotton textile embroidered with yellow, blue and green stitches. There are three borders of cross stitch pattern embroidered in white, blue and green on the red cotton around the central embroidered design. [FB 08/06/2012]
Cultural groups
Hmong
Person
Field collector Deryn O'Connor
PRM source Deryn O'Connor
Date / Period
Date made: Before 19/03/2000
Date collected
19 March 2000
Acquisition information
Donated: 2006
Materials and processes
Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant, Material Pigment, Material Silk Yarn Animal, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Stitched, Process Embroidered, Process Appliqué
Dimensions
Width: max 540 mm approx, Length: max 604 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 2009.135.110 Other numbers: 99
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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