Research in Progress Red cotton shirt with applique bands of black, pink and gray at ends of each sleeve. Back and front, from wrist to wrist, decorated with six rows of glass beads fastened onto leather strings, in gold, blue, red, green and white. On front, leather fringes decorated with blue and white glass beads, and finished with metal thimbles. Lined with blue and white checkered cotton. Glass beads across shoulders in alternating rows of black and white.
- Collection
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection Textiles Department
- Date published
- early 20th century
- Dates
- early 20th century
- Format
- Medium: cotton, leather, glass beads and metal thimbles embroidered
- Pages
- H x W: 45.7 x 104.1 cm (18 x 41 in.)
- Place Discussed
- Bhutan Tibet
- Provider
- Smithsonian Institution
- Published in
- Bhutan
- Reference
- 1965-24-2
- Rights
- Gift of Mrs. Calvin Stillman
- Source
- Digital Public Library of America https://dp.la/item/c5acb9daa8dc5310d062f5016103811e