Pair of very wide trousers of silk, coloured flame, pink, pale blue and pale green. Top portion patterned in squares, each enclosing a woven floral or other motif; lower portion in bands, also with woven motifs.

Collection type: Object
Description: Pair of very wide trousers of silk, coloured flame, pink, pale blue and pale green. Top portion patterned in squares, each enclosing a woven floral or other motif; lower portion in bands, also with woven motifs.
Geographical reference: Tibet
Asia > Eastern Asia > Tibet; Chinese-Tibetan border
Person: Field collector Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen Viscount Falmouth; Field collector Mildmay Thomas Boscowen; PRM source Kathleen Mary Pamela Corona Sherek; PRM source Department of Textiles, Victoria and Albert Museum; PRM source Victoria and Albert Museum
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1967
Date collected: By 1967
Acquisition information: Donated: 1967
Materials and processes: Material Silk Textile Animal, Process Woven
Object numbers: Accession number: 1967.9.13
Research and responses: Her brother the 8th Viscount Falmouth was Evelyn Hugh John Boscawen (1887-1962), there is no record of him visiting Tibet, however another of her brothers, Mildmay Thomas Boscowen (1892-1958) did. It is unclear which is the actual field collector [AP 09/04/2014]