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Pouch3332/15

Pouch made of a square piece of beige fabric, with three corners folded in on itself, and then sewn together creating an envelope-shaped case. Large orange and brown flower design at centre with burgundy petals except for two light green and two royal blue petals. Bordered by concentric squares which contain repeating asterisk designs and zigzag designs. Four pompoms, three dark purple-pink at bottom corners and tip, and one light yellow at centre of opening. Dark gold metal fibre and green-black thread lining the edge of the large square, which has then been folded and sewn.

Culture
Hazara ?
Material
metal, fibre and dye
Made in
Hazarajat, Afghanistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Book Cover3332/12

Square piece of fabric, with three corners folded in on itself, and then sewn together with heavy black thread creating an envelope-shaped case. Has additional green piece of fabric at throat of envelope. Four flower-shaped roundels. Front heavily decorated with small circular mirrors and embroidered floral-like pattern. Heavily embroidered all over with organic designs. Long pink and green tie with tassel at end.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
glass, silk fibre ?, fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Book Cover3332/9

Case composed of a square piece of fabric, with three corners folded in on itself, and then sewn together with silver thread creating an envelope-shaped case. Embroidered all over in concentric squares with swirled designs in between in light green, red, black and burgundy, and a small circular mirror at centre.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
metal, glass, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/6

Long narrow textile with three roundels with mirror at centre evenly spaced across fabric. Backed with colourful calico fabric. Silver fibre decorations.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
glass, silver metal, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/3

Thin rectangular silk textile with silk embroidery and a reddish-brown cotton backing. Edged with short fringe in sections of yellow, red, orange, green, and light green. The edge is also decorated by metal(?) thread.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
cotton fibre, metal, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Table Runner3332/2

Small rectangular woven table runner with long fringe on one short edge. The textile is striped light purple and light blue down the length, embroidered in bright geometric designs. There are three bands of light blue with light purple running down the length on either side and the centre, with neon pink vine-like designs and small rectangles in dark green, navy blue and burgundy. In between the bands are designs of triangles, diamonds and lines in light green, orange, yellow and dark blue.

Culture
Bhutanese
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Bhutan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3332/1

Large rectangular woven textile with fringe along the short edges. Composed of three long pieces sewn together. The weave is beige with embroidered geometric designs of stars, steps, triangles and lines in light green, dark green, red, pink, dark blue and yellow-gold. Pockets for hanging sewn to back along the long edge of both the top and bottom.

Culture
Himalayas
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Nepal
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Leggings3332/8 a-b

Leggings made of a heavy fabric, covered entirely in deep red embroidery. One end is edged with a thick border of brown. Each legging is heavily embroidered with a variety of techniques - red and dark green plaiting, red with geometric design cross-stitch, and intricate embroidery organic designs at top divided by two rows of metallic threads.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
metal, cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fan3332/42

Fan composed of a painted wooden handle, and a separately woven blade. The blade is decorated around the edge with bands of fabric, which are covered with various needlepoint designs. The edges are lined with black-brown fringe and white beads, which carries over to a diamond-shaped centre design. Also decorated with long tassels in dark red, dark purple, dark blue, gold and dark green. The blade is decorated the same on both sides.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
fibre and dye
Made in
Pakistan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Table Cloth3366/2

Large off-white rectangular table cloth with ivory hand-embroidery. Edge of the cloth is embroidered creating a scalloped-edge. Five concentric embroidered designs follow the outer edges of the fabric - three zigzags with two repeating designs in between. Across the centre are three columns by six rows of embroidered crosses.

Culture
Afghan
Material
fibre
Made in
Afghanistan ? or Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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