Bill
Just a postscript to this thead. I have recently had contact from a collector (currently living in Taiwan) who has assembled his collection, mainly of batik but also some embroidery from south east Guizhou, over 8 years. It consists predominantly of 'Ge Jia, White Collar Miao and Rao Jia batik'.
I received an email from him today which included the following comment which I thought you would be interested in:
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Bill's Ge Jia batik baby carrier is very good. It has been made using tu bu homemade/handwoven cloth rather than yang bu the single piece of finer, bought cotton cloth. The pattern looks to be about 60 years old, but as you will be aware, dating these things is very difficult as patterns were copied mother to daughter.
I am trying to encourage him to join the forum to share his knowledge with us as we are all keen to learn and share.
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Pamela
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