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Lace Doily1712/9

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central six-petalled flower, surrounded by a very airy design of elongated flower-like shapes, surrounded by a solid star-shaped band leading into six scalloped shapes where this band becomes a star around each of the six six-petalled flowers, which are each surrounded by a very airy five-petalled petal-like design.

Culture
Swedish ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Sweden ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/7

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central six-petalled flower, surrounded by a very airy design of elongated flower-like shapes, surrounded by a solid star-shaped band leading into six scalloped shapes where this band becomes a star around each of the six six-petalled flowers, which are each surrounded by a very airy five-petalled petal-like design.

Culture
Swedish ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Sweden ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/5

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by five petal-like shapes, surrounded by a narrow two-row band of crocheted small holes, surrounded by three inward facing butterflies with a leaf in between each, surrounded by an outer scalloped edge of twelve scallops. Raised design as dots on butterflies.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/4

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by six petal-like shapes, surrounded by a two-row band of crocheted small holes, surrounded by four inward facing butterflies, surrounded by an outer scalloped edge of twelve scallops. Raised design as dots on butterflies.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/2

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by eight petal-like holes, surrounded by eight crocheted triangles, surrounded by sixteen half circle holes. The outer design is consisting of eight tree-like shapes with inward facing stems. Outer periphery is irregularly circular with protruding crocheting loops, particularly edging the pattern which is between the tree-like designs.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre ? or rayon fibre ?
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Doily1712/1

A hand made circular lace doily. The main concentric abstract design is consisting of a central hole surrounded by eight petal-like holes, surrounded by eight crocheted petal-like shapes with eight five-sided holes at the outer sections of these petals. Then more loosely crocheted design around the outer circumference, which is circular with sixteen crocheted protuberances, each made of three crocheted loops.

Culture
Northwest Europe ?
Material
cotton fibre ? or rayon fibre ?
Made in
Europe
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Lace Curtain1712/37

A rectangular lace curtain. Entire background is consisting of small open squares over which, there are embroidered designs. Central rectangle has a main design consisting of small square dots alternating with a few four-part squares. From the inner to the outer border, the designs are as follows; a narrow band of dashes that have four-part squares attached; an open area that has four-part squares; a wide band depicting flowers in pots; a band of four-part squares connected with a line; an open area that has four-part squares; a narrow band of dashes that have four-part squares attached. Scalloped lace edging.

Culture
English
Material
cotton fibre ?
Made in
United Kingdom and Nottingham, England
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SariEf451

Pale green cotton sari. Blue and beige patterned border on longer sides. One of the shorter sides is unfinished with a frayed edge; the other has a border of three wide blue stripes alternating with beige stripes with blue lines.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cantonese Opera HatN1.768

The folded hat is purple and rectangular with two ties. The hat is folded inwards once on the sides. There is a black edging around the bottom of the hat and a small slit up the centre back seam. The inside of the hat is ecru lining, stiffened with cardboard. Two ecru ties are attached.

Culture
Chinese: Cantonese
Material
cotton fibre, hemp fibre ?, paper, paste adhesive and dye
Made in
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat867/8

Hat made of polished black cotton fibre (?) with two small rounded flaps at the sides with a pink synthetic fibre (?) edging, a silk fibre (?) ribbon border around the bottom edge of the hat with bands of blue, green and pink and white geometric patterns, and an overall domed shape. At the front edge of the hat is a row of metal domed ornaments with a shorter row of metal figures in relief, three of which have protruding three-lobed headdresses. There are five metal medallions with floral motifs and toothed edges. Three of the medallions have bells and other ornaments attached with chain, and one has two flower-like metal protrusions with green and pink fibre at the centre and a butterfly-like metal protrusion. There is a pink fabric pompom at the peak of the hat.

Culture
Kam
Material
cotton fibre ?, dye, synthetic fibre ?, silk fibre ? and silver alloy metal ?
Made in
Guizhou, China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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