Kerchief

Kerchief

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The pattern on this scarf is subtly woven to look like it is veiled, not unlike the painstaking Filipino shadow work embroidery technique known as "sombrado." that is worked on pineapple cloth.


The Costume Institute

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories for men, women, and children, from the fifteenth century to the present.