Traditional and Regional Costumes & Textiles
   
Padded Kimono-shaped Futon Cover (Yogi)
Japan, late nineteenth century

 

The Kent State University Museum has a wide array of traditional and regional costumes and textiles. Of special significance is the Chinese collection, consisting of hundreds of pieces, such as banners that hung behind the throne in the Forbidden City, numerous summer and fur-lined winter court robes, lotus slippers for bound feet, king-fisher feather hair ornaments, and Imperial guard uniforms. The Museum collects garments from all over the world, and due to Northeast Ohio's local population, has strong holdings of central European garments. In conjunction with the extensive Romanian costume collection of Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Kent State University Museum dedicated all nine of its galleries to an exhibition on Romanian costume in 1991-1992. The catalog of the exhibition is available for purchase at the museum store.

 


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