Active forum members may remember that I started a thread (which grew delightfully) about a Dong thread booklet from Guizhou
http://www.tribaltextiles.info/communit ... php?t=1249
We had some very interesting examples posted to this thread and I also shared further information that came to light about mine. I have been able to see several more of these booklets via Ruth Smith (who has written small booklets about them) and Martin Conlan who, having asked his S W China contacts to keep an eye out for them, has been buying them on his visits to China. Interesting as I have found them I was determined not to start a collection. You are already thinking 'famous last words...' and, I suppose, you would be right! OK, so I am not exactly 'collecting' them but I just could not resist a simply charming one which Martin brought back from Yunnan at the end of 2009. It is Yi from Wenshan (and I don't even (really) collect Yi...!)
I am going to post images of the the booklet (approx 19x14cm when closed) to share the lovely water-colour sketches with you.
The inner edges of the thread booklet are painted to look like the woven thread work on the Wenshan Yi costume. Inside the booklet are some paper cut outs for appliqué and also some green fabric cut outs probably dipped in something like rice starch to stiffen them and stop them fraying.
Page 374 of 'Writing with Thread' has a costume from Shiping county, Yunnan which has a woman's head covering (back) and sash with the similar woven thread work and appliqué (and in another booklet somewhat similar to mine there was a piece that could have come from a similar head covering (back)).
Enjoy!!!
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