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Food CoverEf388

Food cover made of a sheer dark red silk square with gold thread warp and weft elements spaced to produce a checkered pattern; each side bordered with a woven gold band. Two sides have a rolled hem, two are selvedge.

Culture
North India
Material
silk fibre, gold metal ? and dye
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food CoverEf387

Food cover made of sheer light blue silk square with gold thread warp and weft elements spaced to produce a checkered pattern; each side is bordered with a woven gold band. Two sides have rolled hems, two have selvedge.

Culture
North India
Material
gold metal ?, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food CoverEf386

Food cover made of a sheer light orange silk square, each side bordered with a woven gold band. Two sides have rolled hems, two have selvedge.

Culture
North India
Material
silk fibre, gold metal ? and dye
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food CoverEf385

Food cover made of a sheer cream woven silk square, each side bordered with a woven silver band. Three sides have a rolled hem, one side is selvedge.

Culture
North India
Material
silver metal ? and silk fibre
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food CoverEf384

Food cover made of a sheer cream woven silk square, each is side bordered with a woven gold band. Three sides have a rolled hem; one side is selvedge.

Culture
North India
Material
gold metal ? and silk fibre
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Food CoverEf383

Food cover made of a sheer cream woven silk square, each is side bordered with a woven gold band. Three sides have a rolled hem; one side is selvedge.

Culture
North India
Material
silk fibre and gold metal ?
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SariEf389

A long unconstructed silk rectangle with sheer plain weave has supplementary weft border patterns. The ends are machine stitched. The selvedge edge is dark green. At the hem, there are three rows of double gold-coloured octagons, single octagons, and arches, and three rows of red-black centred squares. At the waist, there is one row of double gold-coloured octagons and two rows of small red-black centred squares. At the ends, there are woven yellow, green, and white stripes. At the lower corner on the left, there is a merchant's name ("UTTAMCHANDHARBANSUN/AMRITSAR"), stamp, numbers ("11661"), and textile length ("5 YARDS") in blue ink.

Culture
North India
Material
cotton fibre, dye, silk fibre and ink
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HatSf1057

Cotton and silk, bonnet-like hat or cap in a square shape. There are two openings; one lined with red cotton and the other with red silk. Attached are two pink, fabric ties. The hat is decorated with patches of fabric in pink, blue, turquoise, grey, green and fuchsia. The patches are undecorated, patterned with flowers or glittered. There are three star shaped bows in pink, white and red. The inside is lined with cream fabric.

Culture
Quechua
Material
cotton fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlEf191

Handspun and handwoven cotton plain weave (khaddar) in three rectangular panels of red-brown cloth sewn together. Geometric style pattern in red, green, white, and gold-coloured stitch embroidered on top. Black used as embroidered outline on ends. Three gold diagonal stripes span the central area, with the colour pattern mirroring the central span. The colouring alternates magenta-green and magenta-gold pyramids (mandiraan) with the pattern flipping by row. The roof of the windows alternate gold-green gold-white patterning.

Culture
Punjabi
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BagEf189

Handspun and woven brown cloth bag lined in light yellow cotton, with a pocket on the inside. Hand-woven cotton belt, in light red, light yellow, white, light green, and purple striped pattern sewn onto sides of bag and forms the handle. Bag embroidered in silk and darn stitch. Patterns on one side is divided into large diamonds, in white, light green and dark pink, all on yellow band, divided from other pattern of diagonal rows of alternating colours, in white, yellow, light green, and hot pink. Pattern across bottom section is stylized shapes embroidered in yellow, white, yellow, and light green. Other side of bag has row of chevrons at opening, in dark pink, white, and light green and yellow between these colours. Large section of light green and orange divided by dark pink intersecting diagonal lines and straight lines. Another band of chevrons, and pattern along the bottom of bag are short diagonal lines with horizontal lines between. Blue glass beads and green fibre tassel on one bottom corner, white glass beads and green fibre tassel on other.

Culture
North India
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, glass, synthetic fibre ? and dye
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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