apron
- Museum number
- Eu1997,04.107
- Description
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A woman's apron. Made from two equal sized pieces of black goat hair (?) tabby woven cloth, stitched together along one selvedge and decorated with six identical floral motifs. The motif is a flowered plant with two leaves in a pot. Worked in supplementary weft (?), with short floats, using white, pink, maroon, green, and lilac woollen yarns and a little gold-coloured metal-wrapped thread. The sides (warp ends) turned and hand stitched. Black commercial woven tape used as ties.
- Production date
- 19thC (donor information)
- Dimensions
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Length: 77 centimetres
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Width: 69 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Text from Eth Doc1892, no. 69: Home produced by women from coarse black thread (goat hair?) and embroidered using a technique found in north Croatia in rows of large flowers in tubs in red, blue, white, green and gilt thread. The apron could be Serbian (?) and could also be a garment worn in town.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1997
- Acquisition notes
- Sold to the donor in the 1960s by his friend, Dimitri Feary, who was connected with the group 'Balkansko oro'. Mr Feary thought it came from a market in Skopje.
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- Eu1997,04.107