coat; jacket; festival-costume BM-As1998-01.174

Period:Unknown Production date:20thC
Materials:cotton, glass, chicken feather, paper,
Technique:sewn, dyed, embroidered, spun (textiles), woven,

Dimensions:Length: 110 centimetres (including feathers) Width: 145 centimetres (across arms)

Description:
Coat or jacket; man or woman’s Guzhang festival costume. Geometrical, with nine free hanging panels. Base cloth of cotton, hand-spun, hand-woven indigo-dyed to almost black. With a small amount of manufactured green cotton. No collar, open at sides with two ties. Decorated with weave-patterned pieces applied to base cloth. Supplementary weft of silk on a foundation warp and weft of dark cotton. Embroidery of shallow diamonds; colours include green with pink, white and yellow. Chicken feathers set into folded-over black squares of indigo-dyed cloth suspended with glass beads.
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Comments:Corrigan’s notes state that this is probably worn over market day best clothes, with ‘silver’ neck pieces and crowns – silver pendants also on front and back edge of jacket and on back.