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BlouseCe354

Woman’s multicoloured blouse with embroidery, sequins and beadwork. The loose-fitting blouse has long, full raglan sleeves, a narrow neckband and opening on the left side front with no fastener. The front and back are identical except for the neck opening. Hand embroidery and beadwork cover the entire surface of the blouse, leaving only a narrow band of textile visible at the bottom hem. The design consists of diamond shapes enclosing stylized flowers, worked in multicoloured glass beads. Each design is surrounded by facetted silver metal sequins, gold metallic embroidery and black embroidery. The neckband has a diamond shaped design worked in black, yellow and blue thread. The sleeves are finished with a single row of facetted gold metal sequins and fringe made of gold metallic thread and gold metal sequins. The inside is unlined.

Culture
Romanian
Material
wool fibre, metal and glass
Made in
Wallachia, Romania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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VestCe353

A woman's fitted sleeveless off-white vest with collar and lapels, mock pockets at the front waist line, and no front closures. Decorated with braid, appliquéd coloured fabric, sequins, and metallic gold-coloured thread. The textile is a woven, napped cotton or wool, resembling suede or felt. Red and blue textile on collar and lapels, as well as in appliquéd design, front and back, are of the same type of textile. Narrow gold-coloured braid (.3 cm.) forms a decorative free-form vine, leaf, and flower pattern attached by machine. Sequins and very small metal beads incorporated into design. Edge of collar, lapels, centre front, and bottom edge finished with saw-tooth edging (.5 cm.) of blue textile, gold-coloured braid (.8 cm.), and gold metal fringe (2 cm.) with gold-coloured metal sequins. Armholes finished with saw-tooth edging and gold-coloured braid.

Culture
Romanian
Material
wool fibre ?, cotton fibre ?, dye, synthetic fibre ? and metal
Made in
Wallachia, Romania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl373/1

A woman's white rectangular shawl of very sheer, crisp, finely spun silk. Repeated geometric and floral pattern design formed with heavier glossy thread, and gold metallic thread woven in. Selvages of heavier threads. Ends are fringed.

Culture
Romanian
Material
silk fibre and metal
Made in
Wallachia, Romania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Figure1303/1

A medium sized standing figure carved with a wobbly base. The eyes and the nose are carved. From the mouth there protrudes a horizontal flat metal rounded curved crescent with hair and a feather on top. Another flat metal rounded curved crescent sticks up out of the back at an angle. The upper body is wrapped around in fibre with a big ball of fibre in front.

Culture
Central African
Material
wood, feather, metal, fibre, clay and hair
Made in
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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SkirtCe351

A woman's wrap-around skirt consisting of a straight rectangular length of dark red wool textile. The main geometric design of gold and silver threads is consisting of a wide triple band (35 cm.) of border design at the bottom edge, and along one vertical edge that has a dense pattern of lozenges and a pattern of large diamond motifs (14 x 14 cm) on the body of the garment.

Culture
Romanian
Material
wool fibre, gold metal and silver metal
Made in
Wallachia, Romania ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltCe352

Woman's straight tie belt with woven white, yellow, gold and silver geometric motif on a dark red ground. Fringed at ends.

Culture
Romanian
Material
wool fibre, dye, metal and plastic
Made in
Wallachia, Romania
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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