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shepherd's shirt
before 1972
A shepherd's shirt from the Fulani tribe of Nigeria. It is round necked, and constructed using narrow strips of plain coarse weave fabric approximately 13.5 cms wide, in natural colour. There is embro...
fragment
1750 - 1800
Dress silk with trails of flowers and ribbons, and islands with shepherd boys reminiscent of the design of printed cottons (toiles) of the late eighteenth century.
hanging
late 20th Century
A printed hanging in red / pink, blue and greens on a neutral ground. The central symmetrical design depics four Indian women, in traditional dress and jewellery, facing a large tree containing flowe...