skirt BM-As1959-10.1

Period:Unknown
Materials:cotton, silk,
Technique:embroidered, appliqué,

Dimensions:Length: 96 centimetres Width: 210 centimetres (laid flat)

Description:
Register 1959: Ornately embroidered woman’s skirt made in two sections, each mounted on a waist-band of red cotton which attaches to the other half by loops and knots. The sections are made of bands of multi-coloured silk, embroidered and with sewn on silk tongues in two rows; small rosettes at the top of each tongue, some with mirror glass centres and tassels at the ends. The whole lined with blue silk.
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Comments:Register 1959:Kweichow Province, China.Tsun-yi-fu.Said to be over 100 years old in 1916.