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Sarong3559/72

Dark purple silk sarong with stiff silver band along bottom edge. Thin patterned columns across main body of sarong, consisting of alternating lines and dots. Silver border along bottom alternates between rows of plain cloth and one with a grid-like design. Waistband is cotton and made up of two bands; first is plain light purple, second has multicoloured vertical stripes along length.

Culture
Thai
Material
silk fibre, synthetic fibre and cotton fibre
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong3559/69

Dark purple raw silk sarong with rows of five-pronged designs across length; groupings of three dots in between each shape. Bottom edge of sarong is bordered with a geometric design, consisting of diamonds, heart-like shapes, circles and vertical lines. Top edge of sarong is undecorataed.

Culture
Thai
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong3559/68

Long, rectangular dark green sarong with bands of concentric diamonds along length. Outer diamonds are done in dark brown, and decorated with light green dots, and inner diamonds are light green with dark brown "X"'s through their centres. Diamonds in second row from top are filled with four small dark brown diamonds with light green highlights. Top and bottom edges of sarong are undecorated.

Culture
Thai
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong3559/71

Red-orange raw silk sarong with alternating rows of butterfly and flower designs along length; "W"-like shapes in between each butterfly and diamonds in between the flowers. Zigzag border along top edge of designs and plain line underneath. All designs are done in dark orange and red-pink; green shading along top and bottom edges.

Culture
Thai
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sarong3559/70

Long, rectangular dark purple sarong with patterned columns along length; made of raw silk. Columns alternate between hook-like designs with horizontal lines, and diamonds with "X" shapes; green lines, trimmed with red, in between each column. Patterns are done in peach and purple-pink. Left and right sides are trimmed with dark green; top and bottom are undecorated.

Culture
Thai
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Thailand
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dragon Robe3550/1

Dark red robe with a round neck, long sleeves, hoof cuffs, and a side opening with gold frog closures. There are slits in the centre front and back. Collar, side opening and cuffs are bordered with black and trimmed with dark gold floral motifs. Dragons, clouds and waves embroidered in silver throughout borders. The front, back and upper sleeves of the robe have five-toed dragon, pearl, fish, cloud, crane, gourd, mountain, Taoist symbols, and floral motifs; all done in silver embroidery. The lower sleeves are black and decorated with silver lines; cuffs and lower sleeves edged with a gold braid. Inner lining of cuffs is dark blue silk with circular symbols embroidered throughout; the rest of robe interior is plain light blue silk.

Culture
Chinese
Material
gold metal, fibre, silver metal, silk fibre, metal and dye
Made in
Sichuan, China ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3522/103

Strip of bright orange kente cloth, with fringe on either end. Woven along the length are thirty-three bands. The first four bands on either side are identical alternating patterns; rest of bands, in centre, are identical alternating designs. The first design of the outer section is of irregularly shaped indigo triangles; second design of outer section is a red-purple and bright orange grid. The first design of the centre section is columns of indigo and red-purple stripes, with dotted indigo columns in the centre; second design is rows of thin indigo semi-circles, connected with horizontal lines. All bands are divided with white lines.

Culture
Ewe ?
Material
silk fibre, dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3473/5

Kente cloth composed of eighteen hand woven cloth strips. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge and have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a repeating stripe pattern; done in dark blue, white, light blue, maroon, yellow, green, and red. The embroidered designs are in the centre of the cloth and consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes and ladder-like stripes; done in yellow, dark green, blue, orange, blue-grey, green-grey and white. Tag attached to bottom right corner.

Culture
Ewe
Material
cotton fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3473/6

Kente cloth composed of twenty-two hand woven cloth strips, forming ten rows. Four strips span the entire length of the textile, six rows consist of three shorter strips. All have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a repeating stripe pattern; done in orange, light blue, white, light purple, dark blue, and red. The six shorter strips along the right side are attached to the cloth upside down, causing the pattern to break in the bottom corner. The embroidered designs cover the entire cloth, except the left edge. The designs consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes and ladder-like stripes; done in shades of yellow, green, red, white, orange, blue, and purple.

Culture
Ewe
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3473/4

Kente cloth composed of twenty-three hand woven cloth strips. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge and have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a multi-coloured checkered pattern; done in black, yellow, red, green and blue. The embroidered designs in the centre of the cloth consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes, ladder-like stripes and geometric motifs; done in dark yellow, black, dark red, blue, green, and light orange. Left and right edges are covered entirely in embroidery, consisting of a rectangular block design. Blocks are filled with horizontal and vertical stripes, checkers, and parallelogram-like shapes; done in dark orange, dark red, dark yellow, green, yellow, dark blue and light pink. Tag attached to back bottom right corner.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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