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Li Chinese Tubular Skirt with Embroidered Designs

Li, 1899-1929

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Li

Li Chinese Tubular Skirt with Embroidered Designs

Li, 1899-1929

Physical Qualities Indigo-dyed cotton with cotton embroidery, 27 x 36 1/2 in. (sewn as a tube) (68.6 x 92.7 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Amy Gould and Matthew Polk, Gibson Island, Maryland
Object Number 2006.174
The tubular skirt of plain-woven, indigo dyed cotton with cotton embroidery throughout in red, pink, beige, and brown. The skirt was woven on a backstrap loom in three bands (9-1/2", 10", 7") with narrow brown stripes that served as guideline for the embroidery which is geometric in design.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2006; Matthew Polk, Gibson Island, Maryland, by purchase, Nov. 10, 2005
Huang Ying Feng, "Li," in Writing with Thread: Traditional Textiles of Southwest Chinese Minorities, Honolulu Hawaii: Univerity of Hawaii Art Gallery, 2009, pp.408-419.
Olivier's Li textiles, http://www.tribaltextiles.info/forum/Olivier_i_i.htm on 3/14/2006.
Li textiles: references, http:/www.tribaltextiles.info/forum/Lireference.htm on 3/14/2006.
Lee J. Chinalai, “Frogs and Ancestors Textiles of the Meifu Li of Hainan", The New York International Show of Tribal & Textile Arts, catalog, May 2004
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