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Kente Textile3473/5

Kente cloth composed of eighteen hand woven cloth strips. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge and have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a repeating stripe pattern; done in dark blue, white, light blue, maroon, yellow, green, and red. The embroidered designs are in the centre of the cloth and consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes and ladder-like stripes; done in yellow, dark green, blue, orange, blue-grey, green-grey and white. Tag attached to bottom right corner.

Culture
Ewe
Material
cotton fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3473/6

Kente cloth composed of twenty-two hand woven cloth strips, forming ten rows. Four strips span the entire length of the textile, six rows consist of three shorter strips. All have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a repeating stripe pattern; done in orange, light blue, white, light purple, dark blue, and red. The six shorter strips along the right side are attached to the cloth upside down, causing the pattern to break in the bottom corner. The embroidered designs cover the entire cloth, except the left edge. The designs consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes and ladder-like stripes; done in shades of yellow, green, red, white, orange, blue, and purple.

Culture
Ewe
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Kente Textile3473/4

Kente cloth composed of twenty-three hand woven cloth strips. The strips have been stitched together along the long edge and have embroidered designs overtop. Each strip has a multi-coloured checkered pattern; done in black, yellow, red, green and blue. The embroidered designs in the centre of the cloth consist of rectangular blocks, plain stripes, ladder-like stripes and geometric motifs; done in dark yellow, black, dark red, blue, green, and light orange. Left and right edges are covered entirely in embroidery, consisting of a rectangular block design. Blocks are filled with horizontal and vertical stripes, checkers, and parallelogram-like shapes; done in dark orange, dark red, dark yellow, green, yellow, dark blue and light pink. Tag attached to back bottom right corner.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
silk fibre, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Sash3385/1

Striped sash with heavy embroidery. Stripes alternate between pale pink and dark pink, with threads extending into adjoining sections, giving stripes flowing appearance. Embroidery is along the bottom edge and upper two thirds of the sash, with a wide section of plain stripes in between. Embroidery consists of triangular sections- with backgrounds of gold, white, pale pink and dark pink- filled with floral and geometric motifs. Geometric motifs are of concentric diamonds, hexagons, diagonal and horizontal lines. All are done in white. Reeds and flowers, done in gold thread, throughout dark and pale pink sections. Pale pink, blue, purple and white flowers, with yellow, white and green leaves, embroidered overtop gold triangular sections. Silver highlights throughout the flowers. Top edge of sash is bordered with gold and dark pink zigzag motif, bottom edge bordered with gold and pale pink zigzag motif. Back of sash is pale pink and undecorated. Length edges are finished seams, width edges are folded. Characters, embroidered in gold, inside fold along top edge.

Culture
Japanese
Material
silk fibre, dye and metal ?
Made in
Japan
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3427/4

Woven rectangular textile composed of three pieces of fabric sewn together. Large ikat centre piece is woven in dark purple-red, light brown, green, and blue. The centre piece is flanked by two pieces of fabric with a red background decorated with intricately patterned gold thread designs.

Culture
Sumatran ?
Material
cotton fibre, dye, silk fibre and gold metal
Made in
Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3448/20

Long rectangular white shawl woven from cotton(?) with open-weave fringe on both ends. The front is embroidered in white silk with large flowers, stems, and circular buds. Some light blue and black thread has been woven into a piece of the fringe.

Culture
Otomi
Material
cotton fibre ? or silk fibre ?
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shawl3448/22

Long rectangular white shawl woven from cotton(?) with open-weave fringe on both ends. The front is embroidered in pink silk with large flowers, stems, and circular buds.

Culture
Otomi
Material
cotton fibre ? or silk fibre ?
Made in
Mexico
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Jacket3448/47

Long-sleeved open vest. Front cross stitch embroidered with large geometric design composed of triangular shapes. Seams and edges have bright orange stitching. Hidden pocket along lower right side. The left sleeve is composed of multiple pieces of fabric. The cuffs are heavily embroidered in two rows of repeating triangles. The open front and hem are bordered with two rows of dark red platform-style pattern.

Culture
Syrian
Material
fibre and silk fibre ?
Made in
Syria
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shirt3448/50

Long-sleeved velvet shirt with embroidered panel on chest. The designs are made from couching down thread. The panel has a red rectangular centre with five large circles. It is then outlined twice with bands of flowers and wavy lines. Between each section is a thin band of repeating V's in dark purple or orange with light green, dark pink and light purple. The panel is edged with orange and light yellow-orange ribbon. The panel is split in the centre to follow the V-neck of the garment. The neck is bordered by grey velvet on each side, and hemmed with orange. The interior is unlined except for silk(?) at the open neck, but edges and seams finished with black lace ribbon.

Culture
Pashtun ?
Material
fibre and silk fibre ?
Made in
Afghanistan ? or Pakistan ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth3448/1

Kente cloth composed of five hand woven cloth strips. The green strips have been stitched together along the long edge, and then embroidered with designs. At each end there are five rectangles across by five rectangles down each strip. The centre of the cloth has groups of three rectangles with embroidered designs spread out. Uneven fringed ends.

Culture
Ghanaian
Material
cotton fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
Ghana
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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