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Lace Doily1712/19

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central circular motif, surrounded by a simple band, surrounded by an open pin-wheel motif, surrounded by a twenty flower motif, and a scalloped border.

Culture
Spanish
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Canary Islands, Spain ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/18

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central circular motif, surrounded by six identical motifs with an outer scalloped edge that has twenty-five circles with open centres.

Culture
Spanish
Material
cotton fibre ?
Made in
Canary Islands, Spain ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/14

A hand made circular lace doily. A solid piece of commercially woven cloth forms the inner circle. A hand crocheted lace band containing two kinds of flowers alternating, and surrounding the central cloth which is bordered by a crocheted band. An airy outer scallop design forms the outer rim. One of the flower designs is a six-petalled flower while the other flower design is only on the top side of the doily and is a four petalled-fllower with a leaf(?) stretching to each side of the flower.

Culture
Swedish ?
Material
cotton fibre ? or flax fibre ?
Made in
Sweden ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/13

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central eight petalled flower, surrounded by a narrow band, surrounded by a very airy abstract design, surrounded by a solid band made of ten half circles, each end of which leads to a six-petalled flower; ten of these six-petalled flowers of which are contained in scalloped protuberances, which form the outer rim, each of these protuberances has seven scallops surrounding each flower.

Culture
Swedish ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Sweden ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1404/2

Textile, rectangular in shape, with fringe on short ends. Off-white cotton with an overall yellow silk fibre woven geometric design. Two bands of yellow with green triangles at each short end.

Culture
Southeast Asia ?
Material
cotton fibre ?, dye and silk fibre ?
Made in
Thailand ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TextileIb253 a-b

Cummerbund (part a) and chest covering (part b), both with multicoloured and copper ikat and lamak weaving geometric designs on black fabric. The cummerbund has a fringe at the bottom. The chest covering has a fringe at the top with a white plastic button at each top corner.

Culture
Rungus
Material
cotton fibre ?, dye, plastic and copper metal ?
Made in
Sabah, Malaysia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Vest1515/2

Vest with rectangular shape and woven design of vertical bands of geometric design in red and black. Bands of yellow, red, off-white and brown on the sides, and a band of black, yellow, red and purple embroidered geometric pattern along the bottom edge on the reverse. Fringe along bottom edge.

Culture
Iban
Material
cotton fibre ?, wool fibre ? and dye
Made in
Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1714/6

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a two groups of flowers of an identical design near the outer edge and facing each other at two opposite sides. The other sides are filled with two identical groups of flowers that go all the way to the outer edge of the doily. These two outer designs are linked on the periphery of the doily by a narrower leaf and flowers design.

Culture
Belgian
Material
cotton fibre and flax fibre ?
Made in
Belgium
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/33

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central plain machine made cloth with the hand made surrounding outer edge consisting of an airy design of pein squared loops.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera ShoesN1.756 a-c

Pair of shoes and one tie. Leather sole, raised wooden heel (2" h.) painted green. Uppers: metallic thread and twisted cord braid appliqued 4 1/2" either side of toe, 1 1/4" deep, enclosing woven raffia applique. Colours: deep pink, gold, and black. Braid appliqued around top of uppers, and twisted and appliqued down centre of toe. Colours: pale green and beige. At heel: black cotton extension, appliqued 4 3/4" above uppers 4 3/4" w. All on black ground. Black cotton loop on either side, attached to uppers where extension joins. Cotton lining. Padded cotton insole. Separate red tie (part c). (Other tie is missing.)

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre, leather skin, palm leaf ?, iron metal, dye, silver metal and paint
Made in
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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