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dress

Date: 1920 - 1929
Country: United States of America
Continent: North America
Technique: embroidery, tambour work
Artist: Maker not recorded
Dimensions: 40 x 23 in. (102 x 58 cm)
Credit: Purchased with HLATC funds
Accession Number: 2002.14.001a


Comments: Teal embroidered and beaded dress.  Has several white cranes on front and back and green and brown butterflies towards the top.  The bottom of the dress features plant life and cherry trees with blossoms.  Dress is heavily beaded with white, brown, pink, and yellow seed and bugle beads.  

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This object has the following bibliographic references:
  • Palmer White. Houte Couture Embroidery: the Art of Lesage. LACIS. Berkeley, CA , 1994.
  • Leslie Pina. Beads in Fashion 1900-2000. Schiffer Publishing Ltd.. Atglen, PA , 1999.

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crane
cattail
cherry blossom
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