Woman's jacket, tailored, with front opening. The upper front parts are of grey handwoven cotton cloth with sparse flecks of white in vertical mat mi; the lower part in plain black handwoven cloth. The back has upper and lower parts in grey handwoven cotton cloth with quite dense flecks of white in vertical mat mi, with between them a panel of reddish cloth with the mat mi running both horizontally and vertically. The front opening is surrounded above by a strip of black handwoven fabric; below the strip is of the same fabric as the upper parts of the front. The sleeves are in the same fabric as upper and lower back panels, with cuffs in plain black fabric. The seams are decorated with cross stitching in various colours.
jacket (clothing: outerwear)
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