The sarong I bought in Bali, Indonesia. I just bought
it on the beach one day after arriving b/c I needed one, I suppose.
it on the beach one day after arriving b/c I needed one, I suppose.
21 April 2007
Tibetan Rug (Modern)
Hand woven Tibetan carpet made by Tibetan refugees in Kathmandu, Nepal. Modern design motif. Purchased in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1977. [SH]
Brocade Frame from Tibet
This is an image of a piece of silk brocade that frames a traditional Tibetan scroll painting called a tangkha. This particular tangkha was painted by a very good friend of mine, a Tibetan artist named Buchung that I befriended while in India on an extended research trip.
Balinese Batik
In December 1998 I spent five days in Bali, mainly in Ubud, the cultural center of the island. On my last day in Bali, I was on my way from Ubud to Denpasar to catch my flight out when my driver stopped at a Batik “factory” and show room. That is where I found this piece.
Balinese Batik
In December 1998 I spent five days in Bali, mainly in Ubud, the cultural center of the island. The whole time I was there, I looked hard for Batik art but didn’t find the work for which I was looking. On my last day in Bali, I was on my way from Ubud to Denpasar to catch my flight out when my driver stopped at a Batik “factory” and show room.
Tibetan Apron
This is one of two aprons that are an essential part of the traditional Tibetan women’s dress. They were bought in Lhasa, Tibetan Autonomous Region, in September 1992. They are made out of material woven from cotton threads in the typical Tibetan style. The upper border is made out of silk brocade. They are worn over ankle length, wrap-style, sleeveless dresses made from dark wool or cotton material that in turn are worn over silk or cotton blouses in a color that matches one of the colors of the apron.
TIbetan Apron
This is one of two aprons that are an essential part of the traditional Tibetan women’s dress. They were bought in Lhasa, Tibetan Autonomous Region, in September 1992. They are made out of material woven from cotton threads in the typical Tibetan style. The upper border is made out of silk brocade. They are worn over ankle length, wrap-style, sleeveless dresses made from dark wool or cotton material that in turn are worn over silk or cotton blouses in a color that matches one of the colors of the apron.
Tibetan Cloth
This is a long narrow piece of cloth bought in Lhasa, Tibetan Autonomous Region, in October 1992. It is woven from cotton threads and represents the typical style of Tibetan weaving technique and coloring. It can be hung on the wall or worn around the neck.
Bathrobe from Taiwan
This is a bathrobe received as a present in 1998 from a Taiwanese friend who was a member of the Taiwanese community in Orange County, California. The material is satin-style smooth silk.
Chinese Blouse (Modern)
This is one of three pieces of silk material bought in the capital of silk production, Hangzhou, in April 2006. Contemporary Chinese people consider this type of silk the finest China has to offer at the moment. It is very fine and thinly woven and decorated with beads and sequins. It differs from the smooth, satin-style silks that dominated the silk material stores in the 1990s. It also is different from the raw silk associated with Thailand. These materials were a gift by a person who wished to express gratitude. It is common practice in China to give gifts in return for favors. Ideally, such gifts should not be given as cash, but rather be something the receiver might treasure. .
Chinese Blouse (modern)
This is one of three pieces of silk material bought in the capital of silk production, Hangzhou, in April 2006. Contemporary Chinese people consider this type of silk the finest China has to offer at the moment. It is very fine and thinly woven and decorated with beads and sequins. It differs from the smooth, satin-style silks that dominated the silk material stores in the 1990s. It also is different from the raw silk associated with Thailand. These materials were a gift by a person who wished to express gratitude. It is common practice in China to give gifts in return for favors. Ideally, such gifts should not be given as cash, but rather be something the receiver might treasure.
Miao Textile (China)
This Qi Pao style dress was bought from a boutique store in Beijing in July 2004. The cotton material is typical of the batik made by the Miao people who settle in Guangdong and Guangxi province in mainland China. Clothing made out of these batiks include blouses, bags, pants and dresses and are very popular with foreign visitors to China.
Jino Textile (China)
This cotton jacket is part of the traditional dress of the Jino minority women who live in southern Yunnan province. It was bought from a Jino woman near Xishuangbanna in February 1991.
Indian Antique Sari
This is one of four pieces of material obtained from the Furniture and Decorating Store ABCHome in New York city. This store carries original furniture and material bought directly from members of various cultures in the nation-states of the world. This cloth used to be a sari worn by somebody in India in the 1950s. ABCHome (www.abchome.com) recommends it being used as window panels.
Indian Antique Sari
This is one of four pieces of material obtained from the Furniture and Decorating Store ABCHome in New York city. This store carries original furniture and material bought directly from members of various cultures in the nation-states of the world. This cloth used to be a sari worn by somebody in India in the 1950s. ABCHome (www.abchome.com) recommends it being used as window panels.
Indian Antique Sari
This is one of four pieces of material obtained from the Furniture and Decorating Store ABCHome in New York city. This store carries original furniture and material bought directly from members of various cultures in the nation-states of the world. This cloth used to be a sari worn by somebody in India in the 1950s. ABCHome (www.abchome.com) recommends it being used as window panels.
Indian Antique Sari
This is one of four pieces of material obtained from the Furniture and Decorating Store ABCHome in New York city. This store carries original furniture and material bought directly from members of various cultures in the nation-states of the world. This cloth used to be a sari worn by somebody in India in the 1950s. ABCHome (www.abchome.com) recommends it being used as window panels.
Indian Antique Sari
This is one of four pieces of material obtained from the Furniture and Decorating Store ABCHome in New York city. This store carries original furniture and material bought directly from members of various cultures in the nation-states of the world. This cloth used to be a sari worn by somebody in India in the 1950s. ABCHome (www.abchome.com) recommends it being used as window panels.
Chinese Wedding Bedcloth
This is a piece of cotton material often used as a sheet to sleep on. Many rural households have exactly this type of design on their beds. They often received it as part of the bridewealth that the grooms family prepared for the newly wed couple.
Chinese Wedding Bedcloth
This is a piece of cotton material often used as a sheet to sleep on. Many rural households, especially middle aged couples and older have exactly this type of design on their beds. They often received it as part of the bridewealth that the grooms family prepared for the newly wed couple. This exact design is associated with rural style and has in recent years come to fashion as a decorating cloth in city restaurants that offer “home-style cooking” or “rural fare.”
Chinese Dress
This is a modern version of the traditional Qi Pao dress. It was bought in 2006 in Beijing in a small boutique in the Hou hai area, an area of Lakes in the center of the city north of the Forbidden City (the emperor’s palace). It is made out of cotton stretch meant to be tight, with a back zipper instead of traditional openings below the right shoulder, has very small sleeves and cut-outs below the neck.
Chinese Dress
This dress was commissioned in 1991 in Beijing, China from material bought at the Friendship store. The outside is silk brocade and the inside is green silk lining. The dress is modeled after a traditional Qi Pao dress. Its cut is rather conservative with long sleeves, long skirt and a side opening at knee level. Many updated versions of the Qi Pao are short sleeved or sleeve-less, knee length with side openings at upper hip level.Chinese Jacket
This jacket was commissioned in 1991 in Beijing, mainland China from material bought at the Friendship store. The Friendship store was once the only store in Beijing that offered a large range of western style goods and specific Chinese goods for western clients. Among these specific goods were also special quality silks. The lining of the silk brocade is made of silk as well. Silk brocade in similar style used to be associated with the dress of high male officials working for the then Chinese emperor. The shape of the jacket is not traditionally Chinese but was specified by the customer to be used as a evening jacket. The simple design was meant to emphasize the elaborate patterns of the brocade itself.
Chinese Dress
This is a short sleeved dress in the style of the traditional Qi Paos worn in the 1920s and 1940s in mainland China that recently came back into fashion. The material chosen for this made-to-measure dress is cotton with a hint of stretch material. Material for the dress was bought in a store in Beijing in 2006.
Chinese Blouse
This blouse was a bought ready-to-wear in a small shop within a clothing market hall in Beijing China in July 2006. It follows the style of the traditional Qi Pao dresses but is designed in an updated fashion. The material is silk but is very thin and not of high quality.
Chinese Blouse
The cloth for this made-to-measure blouse was bought in the summer of 2006 in a silk store on Xizhimennei in Beijing, PR China Both the main cloth and the inside lining of the blouse are silk. The tailor who made the blouse has a shop inside the silk store. He also created the buttons for this blouse. The style is an updated and shortened version of the traditional Qi Pao dress that fell out of favor after the Communist Party took over power in 1949. In recent years, Chinese women have rediscovered the beauty and appeal of the Qi Pao. Women in Shanghai in particular are known to wear the Qi Pao again in similar fashion as common during the 1920s to 1940s.
Bai Money Belt (China)
This is a money belt bought in 1991 from a member of the Bai minority in Dali, Yunnan province, PR China. Dali is an 8 hour bus ride north of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province. The belt is made out of cotton with cotton thread stitching and includes a zipper in the top border. The female seller claimed that the images on the money belt are typical motifs used in Bai cultural productions. [CA]
20 April 2007
Sari from Bengal (India)
Silk saris with ornate borders are worn by women generally during festive occasions such as marriages in the cooler months of India–November to January or so. The peacock brings warm memories to mind because it reminds me of yearly visits to my grandparents’ house at Jullundur, a town in the state of Punjab, in the northwestern part of India.
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