Textile

Museum number:
9-21188
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4714
Description:
cloth, Dzao “paa” female wedding head cloth. cloth very dark blue, woven, with embroidery in white, light and dark brown, and blue-green. embroidery is warp direction bands of repeating patterns with central area containing other embroidered motifs, and beads of weft direction embroidery at both ends. cloth has 3 holes. separate bands of woven cloth, one off-white, one brown, have been folded over and sewn onto warp direction selvedges. third strip of cloth (off-white) sewn onto outer edge of warp selvedge on one side; some raveling. separate approx. 3 mm wide band of knotting?/braiding? sewn onto each of 4 corners. warp ends knotted. entire cloth including sewn-on edging and warp ends: 58 cm L x 36 cm W.
Donor:
Eric Crystal
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
Accession date:
September 19, 2000
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 9-21188, described as cloth, Dzao “paa” female wedding head cloth. cloth very dark blue, woven, with embroidery in white, light and dark brown, and blue-green. embroidery is warp direction bands of repeating patterns with central area containing other embroidered motifs, and beads of weft direction embroidery at both ends. cloth has 3 holes. separate bands of woven cloth, one off-white, one brown, have been folded over and sewn onto warp direction selvedges. third strip of cloth (off-white) sewn onto outer edge of warp selvedge on one side; some raveling. separate approx. 3 mm wide band of knotting?/braiding? sewn onto each of 4 corners. warp ends knotted. entire cloth including sewn-on edging and warp ends: 58 cm L x 36 cm W.

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