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Description: | black cotton embroidered with stylised plants, geometric motifs etc in coloured silks, white glass beads, sea-shells, mother-of-pearl and white plastic buttons; from the Swat tribe of North Pakistan, at top ball of clay covered with strngs of beads, on cone of cotton, printed with yellow crosses inside heart-shapes on maroon; cone stiffened with straw inside stitched casings, and 4 rows of small shells; main part of hood gathered to cone under lattice and fringe of beads and cut with front opening for the face, centre back seam with large square gusset; decorated with, from top: 1: band of red brick-stitch with coloured zig-zags; 2: row of lozenges with 2 pairs of C scrolls at top, plant in centre, all in coloured cross-stitch, red ground, yellow outlines; 3: above forehead, band with pairs of coloured lozenges; sides with Tree of Life pattern, crown in horizontal stain-stitch, bound with pairs of cross-stitch triangles, in blue with yellow outlines, orange with green outlines; green edged red stripes at centre, line stripes at edge; leaves and stalks in satin-stitch in chevron pattern, outlined with white beads; at bottom, chevrons of colours and red above cross-stitch zig-zags; gusset edged with blocks of triangles in yellow or green alternate with red, black centres, edged with beads; centre of area inside border with cross centred by a hollow square, scrolling Vs at points, in green bars with red satin-stitch edges and beads; 4 square of brwon edged green bars, 2 detached squares in red; 2 discs of green, brown and yellow chevrons off centre and ring divided by beadsl edges of front and base with close cross-stitch decorated with beads in pairs, loops or crosses; plastic buttons along seam of gusset; ground powdered with buttons of various sizes; back seam with strip of cotton, almost covered with rows of bugle and round beads and brass and plated brass ball chain, bottom end with 4 pendants of stamped brass
lining: red cotton in main part of hood; blue cotton in gusset; top and lining caught together by the stitches of the beads
mark: "1106" hand-written in ink on lining,
Accession number: NCM 1985-484 | Subjects: | needlework costume (children's) foreign costume and textiles | Temporal: | 1950-1960 | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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