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Blouse in four pieces
1800s
- Medium
- Plain weave piña; needle lace (drawnwork) and white cotton embroidery
- Classification
- Embroidery
- Dimensions
- Overall: 93 x 52.1 cm (36 5/8 x 20 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Philippines
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. O. E. Kelsey
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
This group consists of coordinated clothing components made of fine piña cloth in plain weave, all worked in matching hand-embroidered cotton motifs. The set includes a fichu, an unsewn blouse front (pechera), and two unsewn sleeve panels. All four pieces share the same ground material, embroidery thread, and design vocabulary, indicating that they were intended as elements of a single baro-camisa ensemble.
