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ClothSf947

A pink rectangular knitted cloth with a multi-colour woven fringe. The field is divided into nine pattern bands outlined with blue stripes. Six bands repeat florets joined by stepped oblique lines. Two bands alternate six part circles with profile standing birds while the central band alternates florets and circles. Blue bands with white squares outline the field.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre, synthetic fibre and synthetic dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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UnderwearSf967

Long underwear made of off-white wool with pockets inset at the side seam, loops at the waistband, and an overlapping front placket.

Culture
Quechua
Material
synthetic fibre and wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlSf966

Shawl composed of off-white wool with a widely spaced black check with a band of woven multicoloured stripes near each end. Finished with a row of multicoloured crocheted circles and bands with an off-white fringe at each end.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and synthetic fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltSf994

Belt composed of a narrow warp-faced band with a grey-greenand off-white zigzag pattern running the length. Lenticular shapes fill the spaces on either side of the zigzag with a black border running along the edges. The unwoven warps at one end are braided and knotted. A tuft of light brown yarns are caught in the knot.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and alpaca wool fibre
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BeltSf993

Belt composed of a narrow, warp-faced band with a herringbone pattern running the length of it. Shades of orange and green predominate with a fleck of red-purple in the centre and dark blue-green edges. One end of the band finishes in unworked warps with cut ends and the other end is finished with a square braid.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre ?, synthetic fibre ? and dye
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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HangingEf260

Ikat-dyed design on fine hand woven blue cotton. Weft ikat dyes create objects of red and green, softly outlined on white on a black ground in three broad bands: (a) two bands of architectural structures, (b) central band of human and tree figures. Other bands of blue and white; checkered green, black and white outlined in red; checkered yellow and purple; single band of blue with white geometric designs, run between three broad bands above. A vertical leafy runner motif woven in white threads dominates upper field. Lengthwise border stripes are yellow and white on blue. Un-numbered end has broad redish-purple band outlined in white, dark blue and yellow. Numbered corner has paper label: 'NO. VR 28 WIDTH 105 LENGTH 205 RETAIL SALES PRICE 25 65 KHADI GRAMODYOG BHAVAN MADRAS'

Culture
Indian
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Cuttack, Odisha, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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VestSf965

Vest with black front panels and an off-white back panel. There are two black pockets at the front corners by the centre opening, and a stand-up collar, which is partly black and partly off-white. The black panels extend under the arms about 9 cm into the back on each side.

Culture
Quechua
Material
wool fibre and synthetic fibre ?
Made in
Taquile, Puno, Peru
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlEf255

Ikat dyed design on fine woven black cotton. Two bands at each end display weft ikat dyed geometric motif. These are offset by solid bands of red or green and a multistrand cotton in red, white, and yellow is interwoven in a checkered design. A tiny motif in white or red is embroidered at wide intervals on centre field. Ends have two rows of only warp threads.

Culture
Indian
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Cuttack, Odisha, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BlouseEf210

Blue and dark red machine made cotton textile has been hand embroidered and hand sewn. Partially lined with light green floral print cotton fabric. Two large orange squares below bustline, decorated with metal thread, and other traditional stylized designs, both floral and geometric, are inset with small pieces of mirror. Extensive use of chain, buttonhole, plain, satin, and square stitches in orange, blue, green white, black, red, and silver.

Culture
Indian: Northern Indian and Indian: Central Indian
Material
cotton fibre, glass, silver alloy metal, metal and dye
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ShawlEf191

Handspun and handwoven cotton plain weave (khaddar) in three rectangular panels of red-brown cloth sewn together. Geometric style pattern in red, green, white, and gold-coloured stitch embroidered on top. Black used as embroidered outline on ends. Three gold diagonal stripes span the central area, with the colour pattern mirroring the central span. The colouring alternates magenta-green and magenta-gold pyramids (mandiraan) with the pattern flipping by row. The roof of the windows alternate gold-green gold-white patterning.

Culture
Punjabi
Material
cotton fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Punjab, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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