Vest Item Number: 698/12 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Blue panel vest. The panels are woven from predominantly blue fabric with white, brown and gray pieces. The vest is made of four woven panels, stitched together at the back and top. The sides are connected by two blue fabric bands on either side. The front is left open. The edges are edged with dark blue fabric. The inside upper back is reinforced with a dark blue fabric square, decorated with white stitching in a diamond motif. The inside is unlined.

Specific Techniques

Technique used for fabric of main body of garment known as "saki-ori": a technique of weaving material from a cotton or bast fibre warp and stripes of torn rags as the weft. In this garment 17.0 cm wide fabric panels of the vest have been woven from un-dyed cotton warp threads and a weft of indigo-dyed cotton rags. Back shoulder inset made in "sashiko" technique: 2 or 3 layers of dyed indigo-blue fabric covered in small stitches of white cotton (in this case it is a herringbone pattern) over the entire surface. Entire garment is edged in indigo-dyed cotton fabric. The edging on back shoulder panel also trimmed with decorative white cotton stitches in chevron pattern. Narrow bands of the same fabric as the edging has been stitched (somewhat crudely) to the side seams to create an open join. Garment assembled by hand-stitching throughout.