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Description: | black cotton embroidered mainly with fancy vandykes in coloured silks, plastic buttons and white glass beads; red cotton printed with quatrefoils; from the Khagar valley, 2 fronts of black cotton, centre edges bound with magenta cotton with undulations of machine-stitches; turnback lapels of the lining fabric (see below), magenta piped edges; back stand collar in printed cotton with machine-stitched scrolls; back yoke of printed cotton; one back, slit at side-seams, bottom edge bound with maroon collat and trimmed with loops of beads on coral cotton, fronts with matching embroidery; cenrte front and bottom edges with bands of angular S scrolls in yellow and blue-green, red background, in small cross-stitch between 2 lines of white beads in pairs, row of buttons along bottom edge; 3 triangles of small triangles also in cross-stitch with a part-lozenge of red chevrons above, edged with beads; each side with a red double zig-zag with 3 parti-coloured chevrons above each point, bead outlines; from top, 3 motifs: 1: of 5 graduated double chevrons in colours; 2: band of coloured barred lozenges in cross-stitch, parti-coloured chevrons above; 3: ring of red chevrons edged with beads, band of cross-stitch as in motif 2, buttons around; back with row of buttons at each armhole, along bottom of yoke and bottom edge; beads along side-seams; band of S scrolls as on front, down centre back and across bottom edge, diaper of triangles in red and yellow/green satin-stitch inside bottom edge and sides; from centre back at angle, circles on stalks, in red satin-stitch, tipped with green and yellow edged beads; triangles along centre seam between stalks, buttons around; yoke seam with loops on opaque white and transparent red beads; 3 chains on rings hanging from shoulder to shoulder from mother-of-pearl buttons
sleeves: none
lining: black cotton, printed with diaper of lozenges of pink lines on black making lattice, second diaer of white and yellow triangles at some crossings of the lattice,
Accession number: NCM 1984-444 | Subjects: | needlework costume (children's) foreign costume and textiles | Temporal: | 1960c | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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