Cleveland Museum of Art

Blouse in four pieces

Date

1800s

Medium

embroidery in white cotton on piña cloth

Culture

Philippines

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This group consists of coordinated clothing components made of fine piña cloth in plain weave, all worked in matching hand-embroidered cotton motifs. The set includes a fichu, an unsewn blouse front ( pechera ), and two unsewn sleeve panels. All four pieces share the same ground material, embroidery thread, and design vocabulary, indicating that they were intended as elements of a single baro-camisa ensemble. Because piña is more translucent than abacá, it has historically been considered more prestigious.

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