blouse;
bead;
costume
- Museum number
- 2014,8026.7
- Description
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Blouse, from a woman's costume, machine-woven printed wool with flower sprays in pink, blue and green on a yellow ground, with pin-tucks at the front on each side, and at the back centre. Commercially-made cotton ribbon trim for collar, the right-hand side of front opening and cuffs. Clusters of plastic beads sewn to the cuffs. Front opening closes with metal poppers. Lined with striped cotton in white blue and pale red, with a band of pale turquoise blue cotton inside the front right opening.
The printed yellow fabric has a diferent pattern to that used for the matching blouse, skirt and apron (2014,8026.1-3).
- Production date
- 1970-2000
- Dimensions
-
Height: 49 centimetres (top of collar to hem)
- Curator's comments
- This distinctive, colourful and heavily ornamented costume is characteristic of the Hungarian people of Magyarvista, present-day Viştea, Cluj region, Romania. A number of Hungarian communities whose regions became part of Romania after 1920 have maintained their identity. A similar costume illustrated in Edit Katona, Hungarian Folk Jewellery, Ethnographic Museum, Budapest, 2005 (frontispiece) and dated 1996. See also T. Banateanu et al, Folk costumes, woven textiles and embroideries of Rumania, Bucharest 1958, col. pl. XXIX, a wedding in Viştea.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2014
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired by vendor in Romania in 2014.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 2014,8026.7
