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coat, Chinese


Nom de l'objet : coat, Chinese
Catégorie de l'objet : Personal Artifacts
Sous-catégorie de l'objet : Clothing-Outerwear
Numéro de catalogue : HER42376
Numéro d'accession : 1987.1318.0001
Description : A home made mostly hand sewn black wool mans Chinese coat of home woven cloth in 20.6cm wide widths. The coat has a wide wrap to the right with a one frog closure with the cord loop at right armpit and frog missing from top corner edge of left side. Left front is made of two full panels, two half panels and a large gore. Right front is made of one full panel, a half panel, a small gore and a full gore at side that tapers to under arm. Right and left sleeves are made of three panels that go around the arm. Back has a half panel in centre with a full panel on each side. To left of this is a small gore at bottom then a large gore that reaches armpit where gusset was added to give sufficient length to the gores. On the right side is a smaller gore that reaches nearly to the armpit. The entire garment is faced to the inside except inside front right which is salvage with an 8.0cm wide bright blue bias, stitchedby hand. Bias is made of several pieces all sewn together by hand. Raw edges have been stitched by machine in beige and green thread to prevent fraying. Soiled, one edge of join on front right edge is starting to fray. The blue facing is soiled at bottom edge andthe frog for the front closure is missing. Threads that held it on are still there.
Département : B.C. Heritage Branch
Établissement : Barkerville Historic Town  Facebook-Barkerville Historic Town  Twitter-Barkerville Historic Town 
Ville de l'établissement : Barkerville
Province de l'établissement : British Columbia

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