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Title
Karen White Dress, #3
Creator
Unknown
Date Created and/or Issued
Undated
Publication Information
California State University, Sacramento. Library. Donald and Beverly Gerth Special Collections and University Archives
Contributing Institution
California State University, Sacramento Library
Collection
Southeast Asia Community Resource Center Collection
Rights Information
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts or photographs must be submitted in writing to California State University, Sacramento. Library. Donald and Beverly Gerth Special Collections and University Archives as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Description
Dress in the style of the Sgaw Karen people in Thailand. The dress is made of undyed cotton, and consists of four separate panels sewn together. Thin rows of pink, blue, and teal string are woven into the vertical sides of each panel. Horizontal stripes of pink, yellow, and blue cotton is woven into the middle of the dress; stripes of pink, purple, green, yellow are woven at the hem. The pink, blue, yellow, and green cotton thread from the woven designs is left long to form tassels.
Original title from SEACRC: Karen White Dress #3
Type
image
Format
image/jpeg
Color
44 x 20 in.
Nikon D800
Adobe Photoshop Camera Raw 14.2 (Macintosh)
300 dpi
RGB
8 bit
6000 x 3375 pixels
cotton (textile); pompoms; weaving
Extent
2.438 MB
Identifier
SEACRCC-3934A
2005.65.072
3934
http://csus.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/seacrcc/id/387
Subject
Clothing
Embroidery (visual works)
Sgaw Karen (Southeast Asian people)
Textile design
Karen
Relation
From the Southeast Asia Community Resource Center Collection. MSS-2005/65. California State University, Sacramento. Library. Donald and Beverly Gerth Special Collections and University Archives
Box 1

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