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A girl's or a young woman's short loose fitting beige blouse with short sleeves. Centre front opening has red drawstring ties. Multi-coloured heart motifs of red, green, and blue embroidered along bottom hem. The neckline edge, sleeve hems, and bottom hem are decorated with red blanket stitch.
A woman's square head scarf made of black jacquard weave cotton (pieced at one edge (?)). One corner is edged with multi-coloured knotted embroidery.
Doily made of buckinghamshire lace with an octagonal centre of linen fabric and openwork at the edges.
A woman's very, very short close fitting multi-coloured vest trimmed with bands of dark blue lace around the armholes, neckline, and bottom. Square neckline, centre front opening, and with no provision for fastening. Neckline and bottom edge trimmed with pleated self-fabric. Lined with grey broadcloth. Hand sewn.
A simple straight apron made of coarsely-woven red, and black horizontally striped wool textile with off-white and yellow woven accents. Made of a rectangle of fabric with the top corners folded inside to provide shaping. Red, and black wool braid sewn around the sides and bottom, extending to form ties at the waist. Narrow hems at top and bottom. Quite stiff and heavy.
Cap of black silk damask with widely spaced roundels and floral motifs. The cap is made of two halves joined at a centre seam from front to back, except for the opening at the top, round when worn. This opening and the forehead area are edged with narrow piping. The edge of the cap is straight across the forehead, but then is cut at a right angle so that it covers the ears. The lower edge forms a circle from the right angle to the top opening. The outer fabric is folded under at the ears and threaded on a cord. The cap is lined with blue-green rayon damask with geometric stepped designs and roundels. A pink silk cord extends loosely across the top opening, attached at the centre front and back. At the back are suspended three pink tassels wrapped in silver thread. At the centre front is a complex knot design in pink cord, and five pink tassels.
Cap of black silk damask with a flower and vines at the centre on each side, surrounded with a circle of five-petalled flowers, and with a smaller flower and vine motif on each side of the forehead. The cap is made of two halves joined at a centre seam from front to back, except for the opening at the top, round when worn. This opening and the forehead area are edged with narrow piping. The edge of the cap is straight across the forehead, but then is cut at a right angle so that it covers the ears. The lower edge forms a circle from the right angle to the top opening. The outer fabric is folded under at the ears and threaded on a cord. The cap is lined with blue-purple rayon damask with floral designs. A purple silk cord extends loosely across the top opening, attached at the centre front and back. At the back are suspended three purple tassels wrapped in silver thread. At the centre front is a complex knot design in purple cord, and five purple tassels. At each side above the right angle is attached a silver-coloured metal ornament in the shape of a basket of flowers. At the end of the back seam is attached an ornament of the same metal in the shape of a bat or cicada. Pieces of white paper are pasted to the inside at both sides, and inside the forehead area.
A densely embroidered, multi-coloured cuff, consisting of a wide band (13.4 cm) joined to form a cylindrical shape. Embroidered designs in the form of large X’s and asterisk-shapes, worked in red floss outlined in light gray-white on brown cotton textile, alternate in the central design field, and there are bands of red, orange and light gray-white embroidered geometric designs at the edges. There are two large pompoms, one orange and one red, sewn to the seam where the two ends of the band are joined.
A coarsely woven square off-white cotton pillowcase with bands of red and black geometric designs embroidered in counted cross stitch, in stylized snowflake, chevron, and flower patterns. The back is made of plain off-white cotton broadcloth with a slit for inserting the pillow.
A woman's Durndl skirt made of medium blue cotton broadcloth printed with small pink and yellow flowers with green leaves. Gathered onto waistband. Side or centre back opening with a button closure on the waistband and an elastic sewn to the inner waistband. Machine sewn hem.