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Vest, man's, made from a piece of handspun, hand-woven bayeta (burlap) covered with hot pink castilla cloth of machine-woven wool on the front. The vest is adorned with bright green and blue cotton bands, and white and yellow rickrack. Machine embroidery, dominated by floral designs, decorate the pockets and edges. A large flower is embroidered above each pocket. A stand-up collar is formed by a flap of embroidered castilla at the back centre.
Shirt of unbleached medium weight cotton in smock design. Fold over collar; slashed and yoked neckline; long sleeves pleated into cuffs. The back is longer then the front.
Small, long sleeved unbleached cotton shirt. Piped edge in place of collar. Neckline slit down to mid-centre of shirt. Stylized v-shape design in red and green below neck, and on either side of neckline. Front bottom of shirt longer than the back.
Jacket, girl's, made of dark blue wool with red and green applique. There are green edges on the pockets, cuffs, and front edges. A band of red applique is attachee parallel to the green. Diamond-shaped elbow patches are sewn to the jacket at the corners. The jacket is embroidered over the red and green applique, on the front, on the pockets, on the cuffs and on the diamond patches in light blue, white, yellow, and green cotton thread.
Woven belt with blue edges. Finished with one braided end with braids sewn together and one loom cord end. Thin woven ties in same colours attached to both ends. The belt is warp faced and warp patterned. The pattern weave is a three span float complementary weave in the pink and maroon area and reverses on the other side. Overall pattern is diamond shaped. Three green and yellow strips in same pattern near edges and in middle. The commercial wool has an extra twist added by hand spindle; white yarn is a two ply handspun yarn.
Woven, wool hat, conical in shape with semi-circular indentation in the rim. The bottom edge is scalloped with stripes of navy, red, yellow and cream. The body of the hat is detailed with a cream geometric pattern with yellow, navy and yellow detailing on a red ground. The top section is solid brown with a red tassel attached at the point.
Skirt, woman's, in a two-tiered style with wide pleats at the waist. A band of off-white cotton at the top closes at the side with a drawstring. The rest of the skirt is sewn from commercially woven wool with a piled finish on the outside. A thin band of polished cotton machine embroidered with yellow and red undulating lines sits above a thicker band of the same material at the hem that is machine embroidered with a blue, white, green, and yellow abrstract pattern.
Spindle (parts a-b) consisting of a cylindrical wooden shaft (part a) with pointed ends. Positioned near the top end is a disc-shaped whorl (part b) which is roughly circular with indenting sides.
Square, woven blanket with a red, yellow, pink, green, navy and purple fringe. Detailed are thin solid red bands alternating with wide red and white patterned bands. The design consists of red triangles and lozenge pattern outlined in white. Bordering these bands are thin purple, orange, green and white stripes. Pattern repeats.
Spindle consisting of a cylindrical wooden shaft with a disc-shaped whorl positioned near one end. The whorl is roughly circular with indenting sides.