This is an unique and extremely well-tailored hemp costume. The jacket is made of home-grown hemp, spliced and woven into a fine and dense fabric (17 x 11 th/cm). The fabric widths are 14 cm, hand-sewn together with tiny stitches. It is a wrap-around jacket with buttons made of tightly twisted hemp cord, the button fastening on the back is colored in indigo blue. The jacket opens and closes on one side. On the lower part of the sleeves, applications of commercial cotton fabric have been nicely sewn on, and the neckband fabric strip is also made of cotton fabric.
The long skirt has been tailored by mainly hand sewing together narrow strips of 5.5 cm homegrown, spliced and handwoven hemp. However, the waistband is of a wider handwoven fabric width (15 cm), one side has not been sewn together but is open. The hemp fabric in this skirt is about 17 x 7 th/cm.
Pumi woman's hemp costume - jacket and skirt
China, South-West Sichuan Province Mongol, Pumi-people in WaKe village - Muli City. Middle of 1900s.

