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  Huangping Miao Dress 2 (Front) - Biography
   
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Silk, Linen and Embroidery, 90 x 48 inches, 228.6 x 121.9 cm

Price Code A
Inventory #13196


Huangping county is located in the valley of the Qingshui River. The traditional jackets are made from silk cloth and decorated with intricate emboidery. Treated with repeated dyeing and beating, the material is made soft, shiny, and brown in colour.

The inner layer of the jacket is cotton, dyed locally, and the outer layer is interspersed with embroidered strips and shiny satin, originally dyed green but now acquiring a metallic bronze hue.
The skirts in Huangping are all trimmed with rose coloured trimming borders. The trimming borders are made up of several layers with distinctly woven or embroidered patterns.

This skirt is 28" long, (the pleated section is 21") and the waist band itself is 43" and can be folded to accomodate any width. The jacket measures 62 x 48".

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