skirt

Woman's skirt. Skirt cut out of two long pieces of material woven in a 4 thread pattern. Gathered at the waist by three rows of woollen red threads. The decorative pattern in the lower part of the skirt is composed of 66 groups of 34 rosettes made with white tinsel. Beneath these groups there are two rows of simplified floral designs and one row composed by two wavy lines which cross, forming eights. Inside the eights there are – the spaces between the eights are filled with wool, the wavy lines and the edges embroidered with gold thread. Then comes a row of small scallops worked in red wool with the crochet. The skirt is black. (Homespun wool, purchased cotton, thin coloured thread, gold thread, tinsel). 720mm/3800mm.

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