Blouse Item Number: 3052/9 from the MOA: University of British Columbia

Description

Blouse (part of a woman’s costume, with 3052/10-17) made of fine white linen. Blouse has a square neck and wide sleeves that narrow to a tight cuff with a hook and eye closure. Arms are heavily decorated around shoulder area with lines of needlepoint in red and black. Cuffs and neck are also embroidered, but more simply, with single lines of red and black.

Narrative

Late 19th century Hutsul style woman's costume, of the Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky district in the Kiev region, Ukraine.