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Shawl3080/20

Shawl. Long garment is tightly woven, showing horizontal lines of dark grey-blue interspersed with thin red lines that widen at one edge. Thick tassels hang from each end, the remnants of the weft. At the ends are areas of heavy embroidery in white and yellow, in vertical lines, diamond shapes, and other motifs. One corner holds a small, round, black wax stamp.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3080/18

Textile. Long cloth has stripes of dark blue and light green-grey, interspersed with thin lines of red, yellow and grey. Toward the ends are areas of heavy embroidery in a wide variety of bright colours, mainly in triangles and squares. The centre of the textile is embroidered with small gammadion crosses in different colours. Warp ends make a short fringe along both edges.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sash3080/44

Long sash. Textile is woven in horizontal stripes in colours of green, red, orange and tan, each with a chevron pattern in a different colour running the length of the stripe. Long multicoloured woven tassels hang from each end of the sash, tied off at their ends.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
wool fibre
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3080/43

Long shawl or scarf. Textile made of thin cotton, coloured in horizontal stripes of red, yellow, green, blue and tan. Tan leaf shapes are embroidered across the surface. Each end has heavy embroidery in similar colours, showing a pattern of diamond shapes. Long multicoloured fringe emerges from both ends.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre ?
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3080/42

Long shawl or scarf. Textile woven in a tan base colour, with red, blue, and orange embroidery in thick thread showing star and square motifs along the length of the garment. Ends have panels of embroidery in the same colours, with large diamonds between square borders. Fringe hangs from each end. Underside shows the knotting of the stitches.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3080/19

Long cloth has stripes of dark green-grey and X-shaped motifs in a variety of colours. Interspersed are red stripes holding embroidered patterning in tan or white. Long sides have thinner stripes of red with similar embroidered motifs. Warp ends make a short fringe along both edges. Underside shows threads hanging from embroidery.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SashEe96

A long wide rectangular fabric piece made of woven cotton with a basic yellow colour. Has a geometric red, blue, green, pink, and gold-coloured patterned design consisting of solid diamond shapes, X-shapes, and star-like shapes woven in wool in larger portion along the end that has four bundled fringes. The unfinished end has a smaller portioned design consisting of same coloured horizontal bands.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre, wool fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SashEe97

Orange sash with mulit-coloured geometric patterned stripes, alternating between few rows of diamond motifs, and cross shapes. Colours are blue, red, pink, black, green, yellow and orange. Knotted fringe at one end, raw edge at other. Four narrow, differently patterned and coloured stripes at one end.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile947/1

Large, rectangular, hand-woven, multi-coloured, multi-patterned textile (kira), worn by women as a wrap dress, part of the national dress of Bhutan. Woven in three long, narrow panels, which have been stitched together edge-to-edge, matching the patterns accurately on the seam lines. The long vertical edges are woven in colourful red, green, blue and yellow stripes, forming a 13.5 cm decorative border on each side; narrow vertical stripes (0.75 cm to 1.5 cm) of blue, red and mixed colours appear at irregular intervals across the textile. On an off-white background between the coloured stripes, are many multi-coloured, intricate, geometric patterns that have been applied horizontally with a discontinuous supplementary weft technique, forming a wide variety of motifs and border designs that float on the surface and have the appearance of embroidery. Only the ends of the supplementary-weft designs show on the reverse side. Red is the predominant colour, but a whole range of primary and secondary colours appear in the designs. Many loose ends and unattached threads show on both sides of the textile. The warp threads are twisted to form a short fringe at each end.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoulder Cloth3634/1

Long, red ceremonial shoulder cloth (rachu) with an embroidered panel all along the centre; twisted red fringe on either end. Panel consists of central yellow medallion with concentric circles done in dark yellow, orange and light pink. Area surrounding outer edges and inner circles filled with horizontal bands and squares with white diamonds; bands and squares done in dark green, light green, yellow, red, light pink, and blue. Medallion has groupings of semi-circular protrusions along the top, bottom, left and right edges, with blue and purple swirls in between the groupings of circles. Patterns mirrored on either side of medallion. From centre out: pink and brown flowers, orange and yellow flowers, pink and dark purple flowers, and yellow birds with orange feet and beaks, red and orange crests, and multi-coloured feathers along wings and tails. In between the floral and bird sections are flowers inside semi-circles that extend from top and bottom edges of panel; different colours along each side of central pattern. All floral motifs have dark green and light green stems and leaves throughout; blue and purple swirls extend from flowers as well. Semi-circles with flowers and the bird sections are bordered with red, yellow, light green, dark green, and orange bands; top and bottom edges of panel trimmed with black. Yellow line embroidered on either end of cloth, which extends into one twisted fringe. Back of cloth is undecorated.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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