2019.5.5

Collection type

Object

Description

Postcard bound with pink woven cotton braids demonstrating a Moose hair edging embroidery technique. [JMC 15/1/2019]

Long description

Postcard bound with pink woven cotton braids demonstrating a Moose hair edging embroidery technique. The braids, representing moose hair, are woven around the edge of the card and stitched with string through perforations in the card. The card is inscribed with a typed explanation of the technique. [JMC 15/1/2019]

Geographical reference

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Europe > Northern Europe > United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

England Oxfordshire Oxford

Person

Maker Geoffrey Eric Slade Turner

PRM source Geoffrey Eric Slade Turner

Date / Period

Date made: Before 1954

Acquisition information

Found unentered: 15/01/2019

Materials and processes

Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material String, Material Paper Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Bound, Process Perforated, Process Inscribed

Dimensions

Width: max 84 mm, Length: max 138 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 2019.5.5

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 13 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 34) as follows: 'Edging technique with skin filler.' [JMC 15/1/2019]

Search terms: Specimen, Model, Technique