Crochet Jacket

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/e1b0c9f9f2f5be5c53b1b3a33e87e9aa

Title

Crochet Jacket

Creator

No Information

Date

1991

Description

Jacket of crocheted natural colored twine. Blue silk lining.
From card: "Net Jacket, Southeast Asia? Southern China? Bast fiber; twisted looping. Chinese characters woven into jacket. Translated by Chang-su Houchins, 4/29/88. Net jacket, not Japanese; more likely Chinese (Southern). -CSH. Loan: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 6/24/88, loan returned Feb 8, 1990." Translation is glued onto back of T # card: Front of jacket - on left characters jin and yu - jinyu (wealth) and on right characters su and tang - sutang (tranquil home). Back of jacket - on left characters shou and juan - shoujuan (long life); on right characters fu and lu - fulu (blessings; good fortune) and at bottom, character xi (joy; double joy). Smithsonian Photographic Services black and white negative numbers 88-8341 (front) and 88-8342 (back).
9 Aug 2019
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Subject

Anthropology
Ethnology
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Source

Smithsonian Institution

Relation

https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService/id/ark:/65665/m364071c7a3e8a4a838d349f3f184892ad/90

References

http://collections.si.edu/search/results.htm?q=record_ID=nmnhanthropology_8498868&repo=DPLA

Subject

Anthropology
Ethnology
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Citation

No Information, “Crochet Jacket,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed November 14, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/26617.

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