- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Piece of card bound with white and pink woven cotton braids demonstrating a diamond wrapping hair embroidery technique. [JMC 15/1/2019]
- Long description
- Piece of card bound with white and pink woven cotton braids demonstrating a diamond wrapping hair embroidery technique. The pink and white braids are crossed over each other, creating a diamond pattern, and are tied with string through perforations in the card. An index card explaining two-hair diamond wrapping technique and referring to Aleut seal-intestine coat [1908.73.1] is now in the Related Documents File. [JMC 15/1/2019]
- Geographical reference
- England Oxfordshire Oxford
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1954
- Acquisition information
- Found unentered: 15/01/2019
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Material Paper Plant, Material String, Process Woven, Process Bound, Process Perforated, Process Inscribed
- Dimensions
- Width: max 35 mm, Length: max 136 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 2019.5.2
- Research and responses
Turner wrote a paper on hair embroidery, see Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America by Geoffrey Turner (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 7). [JMC 15/1/2019]
- Associated publications
- This model formed the basis for the line drawing in Figure 16 of Hair Embroidery in Siberia and North America by Geoffrey Turner (Oxford: Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, Occasional Paper on Technology, 7). The illustration is captioned (page 36) as follows: 'Criss-cross braiding, hairs stitched at centre: (a) face, (b) underside. [JMC 15/1/2019]
2019.5.2
Piece of card bound with white and pink woven cotton braids demonstrating a diamond wrapping hair embroidery technique. [JMC 15/1/2019]
2019.5.2
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