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Blouse738/1

Black and blue silk blouse. The blouse has a round neck, long sleeves, side slits and side opening with frog closures. There are thick black bands around the neck with a swirl design on the lower front right. There are thick black bands around the sleeve ends. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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TunicEf461

Yellow damask silk tunic. The tunic has a v-neck front opening with white plastic buttons, long pink cuffed sleeves and side slits. The damask is woven with diamond, coin and fruit motifs. There is pink and white trim on the neck opening, shoulders, upper back, cuffs and bottom hem. There is blue lace with multicoloured floral motifs around the bottom hem. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
silk fibre, dye and fibre
Made in
Madhya Pradesh, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile804/1

Rectangular embroidered panel with five bands surrounding the centre picture section. The thin outside band is black. The thick second band is a geometric pattern with pink and blue flowers on a tan background. The third band is very thin and red. The fourth band is gold. The fifth band is tiny green, black, blue and red flowers on a white background. The centre section has a yellow and red butterfly hovering above blue, pink and red flowers with green blades of grass on a gold background. The panel is backed by a piece of green silk.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre and fibre
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Bag788/1

Bag with pocket-like construction that is decorated with a floral design on the front in multicoloured glass and metal beadwork. The bag is made of black velvet on the front and grey tweed-like fibre on the back with pink trim along the edges.

Culture
Arctic America
Material
silk fibre ?, dye, glass, wool fibre ? and metal
Made in
Northwest Territories, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hanging Textile1130/1

A rectangular embroidered wall hanging. Black background with three words in script, "Drollin blessi heimili?", surrounded by decorative green stems, vines, leaves, and white, blue, and yellow flowers. Rough cut at the edges.

Culture
Icelandic
Material
wool fibre, rayon fibre ?, silk fibre ?, dye and adhesive ?
Made in
Iceland
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1095/1

Silk cloth with blue, green and gold wave pattern at top separated by brown and blue border from central scene of four dragons with clouds and flowers on orange background above blue, green and gold waves and orange and blue rocks. Bordered on three sides by brown border edged with blue. Seam down middle and in upper right corner.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Robe1091/10

Dark purple robe with a rounded neck, wide sleeves and centre opening with brass frog closures. There are slits in the sides and back. On the front, back and sleeves are dragon, cloud, sun and peony motifs in pink, red, green and turquoise. The border along the sleeves and bottom hem has chrysanthemum and prunus motifs in silver and red on a dark purple ground. There are mirrors and green glass eyes on the front, back and sleeves. The inside lining is yellow linen.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, metal, glass, dye and flax fibre
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dance Apron1057/2

Light brown apron with dark blue border on the bottom, dark green on the other three sides. Two green stripes go across the lower half; each has nine bells attached. Four bells and seven thimbles are attached to the bottom of the apron. Top half of apron is embroidered with an eagle in pink, red and green on wings, yellow on beak and feet, holding a green in its mouth and one foot. Ink design in wings indicates embroidery is unfinished. One tie extends on each side of apron.

Culture
Kwakwaka'wakw
Material
cotton fibre, brass metal ?, ink, wool fibre, dye and silk fibre ?
Made in
British Columbia, Canada
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/4

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with machine printed, floral cotton textile. On the ikat side are 25 narrow vertical stripes of seven-colour warp-face ikat designs, separated by narrower, unpatterned green, yellow, or red-purple stripes. The weft is bright pink, giving the piece an over-all rosy appearance. The machine printed cotton backing textile is predominantly red, with brown, tan and white details, and the piece is bound on all four edges with bias cut green silk textile. Several lengths of ikat textile were pieced together to achieve the desired width.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile1046/3

Rectangular, multi-coloured silk ikat bed cover or wall hanging, backed with red, white and gray-blue machine printed cotton textile. The patterns on the ikat side are large and boldly colourful and are composed of six-colour warp-face ikat designs on three narrow vertical panels that have been stitched together to achieve the desired width. The silk weft is bright pink, giving the piece an overall rosy appearance. The cotton backing textile is loosely attached to the ikat silk with running stitches made with red thread. All edges are bound with green silk bias binding.

Culture
Uzbek
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Uzbekistan ? or Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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