sleeve
- Museum number
- Eu1996,06.3
- Description
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A detachable sleeve from a woman's shirt / chemise. Ground made from a single piece of natural cream tabby woven cotton cloth; hand stitched. Vertical seam stitched with yellow wool and silver-coloured metal-wrapped thread. Top 16 cms undecorated. Remainder completely covered in counted thread embroidery. Narrow red/pink bands alternating with 'X'-shaped motifs, using tones of red, white, green and yellow wool threads. Four blocks of long fringing applied to bottom edge.
- Production date
- 1875-1945
- Dimensions
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Length: 52 centimetres (including fringing)
- Curator's comments
- The collection of items Eu1996,06.1 to 4 were collected by the donor and her husband during cycling holidays in the former Yugoslavia c1953 to 1968 (from c1959 primarily in the south). Mrs Dowden has also given three boxes of her husband's 35mm slides, taken during the same visits, to the Department's Pictorial Archive.
See Mladenovic, Vesna 1999, 'Threads of Life: Red Fringes in Macedonian Dress', in Welters, Linda (ed.), Folk Dress in Europe and Anatolia: Beliefs about Protection and Fertility: 97 - 110.
For other Galičnik sleeves, see Eu1994,01.7, and Eu1997,04.129, 141 and 231.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1996
- Acquisition notes
- Mrs Dowden's hand-written note with the item states: 'Part-worked sleeve [* complete in fact] given to me in Skopje.' The collection of items Eu1996,06.1 to 5 were collected by the donor and her husband during cycling holidays in the former Yugoslavia c1953 to 1968 (from c1959 primarily in the south).
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Eu1996,06.3
