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Blouse3048/16

Sheer cream-coloured embroidered blouse; short bodice with long, flared sleeves and a wide collar. Small, white embroidered scrolls are scattered across the material. The collar, right front side edge and sleeve cuffs are decorated with intricate floral embroidery. Diagonal lines of embroidery also extend up towards the shoulders from the scalloped cuffs. The tops of the sleeves are pleated in a slightly lighter colour of cream fabric. The edge of the collar is also scalloped.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre and silk fibre
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3048/15

Cream-coloured textile with embroidery. The textile is made of sheer fabric, scalloped on two adjoining edges, straight and hemmed on the remaining. Along the scallops are wide borders of elaborate floral embroidery in cotton, on a mesh base. A large embroidered V-shape design extends into the centre of the textile from one corner and is decorated with the same floral pattern. Small embroidered S-shapes are scattered across the piece near the decorations.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre ? or silk fibre ?
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blouse3048/14

Blouse with embroidered decoration; wide, open sleeves gathered where they attach to the bodice, and embroidered floral decoration around the collar and bottoms of the scalloped sleeves. The decoration consists of cream coloured embroidery of vines with leaves and flowers interspersed with light brown plastic sequins and beads. Small embroidered flowers are scattered across the fabric on both sleeves and the torso of the shirt. The sleeves are stiff and lined with mesh.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre ?, silk fibre ? and plastic
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3048/13

Square, cream-coloured embroidered textile. The front is made from sheer fabric, the back lined with cream mesh. The edges of the cloth are scalloped and embroidered, two in a more elaborate vine and flower pattern in light cream fibre. Interspersed throughout the pattern are pearlescent plastic sequins and translucent "manik" beads. On the decorated portion of the textile are nine small embroidered flowers above the borders.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre ?, silk fibre ? and plastic
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blouse3048/12

Embroidered shirt with belt. The blouse has a short, unfolded stand-up collar with brown scalloped embroidery in a flower, leaf and vine pattern around its edge. This pattern is repeated along the front shirt edge and sleeve edges. The garment closes at front with pearlescent plastic buttons. The right side of the shirt lies overtop of the left and extends out at an angle near the base of the collar. This extension is decorated with the same floral embroidery, with similar over the left breast as well as three large embroidered flowers. The left front side of the shirt is gathered into five darts. Paper tags are attached to the left sleeve and to the back of the collar. A belt of the same fabric is attached at the waist by two loops.

Culture
Filipino
Material
silk fibre ?, plastic and pineapple fibre ?
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Blouse3048/11

White, thin (jusi fabric), sleeveless top with embroidered lace design. The embroidery is a simple pattern of interlocking groups of three or four leaf-shapes, which creates a scalloped effect around the open edges. It decorates the collar, sleeve holes and bottom.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre ? or silk fibre ?
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile3048/10

Fabric square with embroidered design in the form of a collar piece with a circular double chain of brown loops and a curved, lace section extending from one half of the chain loop. This section is decorated with brown embroidered floral patterns and a brown border around the white lace background. The central design pattern consists of two embroidered abstract leaf shapes surrounded on three sides by small groups of triangular leaves on vines.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre ? and silk fibre
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Dress3048/8 a-c

Olive green evening gown with detachable butterfly (parts b and c) sleeves. The dress has a short, strapless bodice. The front of is in a sheath style with the right side overlying the left and gathered into three loose pleats. The cut of the front panels is rounded, as is the bottom hem. The back of the gown has a large, rounded, loosely pleated panel of the same fabric sewn along the back midline that extends outwards from the main body of the dress in large folds. The back of the dress fastens with a metal zipper and five metal hooks with thread eyes. The interior of the dress is lined with black satin, while the sleeves are lined with black mesh.

Culture
Filipino
Material
silk fibre ?, synthetic fibre, cotton fibre and metal
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shirt3048/5

Embroidered shirt with short unfolded stand-up collar. The central panel is decorated with light pink embroidery of two mirror images on either side of the shirt with large scrolls filled with vine and leaf patterns and undulating linear shapes. The outer interiors of the scroll embroidery are decorated with white cut-out holes from the shirt fabric. The front of the shirt fastens by means of plastic buttons. The cuffs of the sleeves fasten with three pearlescent buttons on each outer edge. The collar has a manufacturers tag (Executive) attached on the inner back side.

Culture
Filipino
Material
pineapple fibre ?, silk fibre ? and plastic
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shirt3048/4

Cream-coloured and highly embroidered shirt. The collar, front and back torso panels and sleeves consist of cream-coloured mesh embroidered with white thread in a floral pattern. The shirt closes halfway down the front with three square, golden buttons. The button inside the collar is pearlescent and white. The right sleeve cuff also fastens with a square, golden button, and the left with an elongated spherical, gold button. A manufacturer’s tag (Tesoro's) is sewn to the inside back of the collar.

Culture
Filipino
Material
plastic, silk fibre and metal
Made in
Manila, Philippines
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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