Jacket of indigo-dyed cloth.

Collection type: Object
Description: Jacket of indigo-dyed cloth.
Long description: Jacket of indigo-dyed cloth. The jacket is of mostly plain, dark blue indigo-dyed fabric, is unlined and has long-sleeves. This jacket has a diagonal opening across the centre front with fastenings at the sides. The jacket has a simple round neck with cream facing. It is trimmed with pale blue appliqued fabric which forms a bold meandering pattern across the jacket. There are also lines of running stitch in different coloured threads as embroidered decoration. [JN]
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); India
Asia > Southern Asia > India; Assam Nagaland Arunachal Pradesh Mizoram Meghalaya
Person: Field collector Robert Gosset Woodthorpe; PRM source J. Dalton Woodthorpe
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Donated: 03/1916
Materials and processes: Material Textile, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered
Object numbers: Accession number: 1916.10.8

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