Woman's pleated wax resist dyed skirt with embroidery. [FB 12/09/2012]

Collection type: Object
Description: Woman's pleated wax resist dyed skirt with embroidery. [FB 12/09/2012]
Long description: Woman's pleated wax resist dyed skirt with embroidery. The skirt has a blue cotton waistband with wash out blue cotton ties hand stitched to each end of the waistband with red cotton yarn. The body of the skirt is made from ramie textile and has been wax resist dyed with a tier pattern in indigo and white. A band across the centre of the skirt has been decorated with alternating squares of resist dyed geometric patterns, pieces of pink silk textile and maroon cotton textile and squares of embroidered red cotton embroidered with a geometric pattern in satin stitch and cross stitch in green, yellow and blue yarn. [FB 12/09/2012]
Geographical reference: China
Asia > Eastern Asia > China; Guizhou Province Near Duyun Gao Yuan Village
Cultural groups: Hmong
Person: Field collector Deryn O'Connor; PRM source Deryn O'Connor
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1992
Date collected: 1992
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 Embroidered, Process Resist Dyed, Process Stitched
Dimensions: Width: max 1250 mm excluding ties, approx, Length: max 505 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2009.135.216 Other numbers: 127
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. [FB 24/07/2012]
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]

Search terms: Textile, Clothing, Skirt