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Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Wearing yellow sandals, leggings, white trousers, a robe of dark yellow linen, and belted under the arms with a ribbon of the same. Face is partly covered by a large hat of the same material shaped like a rounded triangle with an apex at the top. Carrying a screen on two paper handles. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light green silk with a loop of mint green at the top are sewn to the paper backing. The left foot has a dark line vertically along the middle.
Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. figure's left hand is holding a flat circular red, green, and yellow fan. Wearing a long black head cloth that has several gold-coloured dots, a dark blue sleeveless robe, which is over a red robe with multi-coloured striped sleeves, which is over a grey robe, white socks, and low red shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light red-pink silk with a loop of the same at the top are sewn to the paper backing.
A closing fan with twenty-three inner ribs of split bamboo with a painted cloud-like design on the base of each side and two bamboo parent ribs also with a painted design set into a dark rosewood piece into which the metal rivet has been placed. Fan face is rice paper with small pastoral scene painted at the centre top with seven writing characters on the left side of the face. Attached to the metal rivet, there are two light blue-green tassels, 25 cm. long, including the cord.
Skirt cloth with a batik floral motif deisgn in brown with cream details on a dark blue background. Ends are cream.
Rectangular cotton batik with blue pattern on white ground. Two patterns, one a third of textile. Pattern near one end has wide band of blue diamonds and triangles with flowers in them, bordered on two sides by maple leaf and cock motifs. The other pattern is of leaves and vines and smaller flowers on vines. Entire textile is bordered with vine motif.
Batik sampler. Textile has 24 named floral and geometric designs in three horizontal rows of eight. Most designs are blocked out in diagonal sections, some in squares and a few others in alternating rows of elements, Many are geometric floral decorations. The designs are divided by black borders with a repeated brown and off-white triangle motif at the edges and a black and grown four-pointed flower-like motif in an off-white square.
Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of cloth lightly padded to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Figure's left hand is holding a closed red, and green fan. Wearing a black straight-sided hat with a flat crown, and a wide brim, a light purple silk robe, a dark blue silk sleeveless coat tied under the arms with red thread, leggings, white socks, and low black shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed in light green silk thread with a loop of the same thread at the top are sewn to the paper backing.
Figure representing a person on a flat backing of white paper. Front view is depicted of the figure which is made of lightly padded cloth to give a three-dimensional effect having each portion made of a separate piece of cloth with painted details. Hands are made of paper. Face is made of white silk. Figure's left hand is holding a flat circular red, green, and yellow fan. Wearing a long black head cloth that has one gold-coloured dot, a dark blue sleeveless robe belted under the arms with red thread, which is over a red robe with multi-coloured striped sleeves, which is over grey trousers, white socks, and low light red shoes. Two pieces of white flannel hemmed with blue-green silk thread with a loop of the same at the top are sewn to the paper backing.
Strip of red slit tapestry with a woven design of large, closely spaced yellow feathers. A separately woven tapestry band of yellow and red interlocking step frets is sewn to one long side. No warp selvedges are present but parts of all weft selvedges are.
Two fragmentary tapestry panels in brown, red, and two yellows. Major design is a diamond with four hooks arranged in radial symmetry. Repeated at least four times. Borders of interlocked step frets and stripes on both long edges of each fragment. Blue yarn used to sew two panels together for a short distance. Remnants of more blue yarn on both outside edges of the panels. Many holes and unraveled yarns. One panel discoloured. Parts of all selvedges of both panels are present. Z-spun, two plied s yarn, however there are some z-spun single wefts.