After lunch, we started to go to the fashion gallery but, on the way, ran into a couple of people from the tour group who recommended that we see the Middle Eastern exhibit where there was some wonderful embroidery on a burqa with face veil. It turned out to be a stunning white embroidery on white fabric with pulled threadwork where the wearer looks through the veil. Gorgeous to look at, but I wouldn’t want to wear one.
Along with the fashion gallery that displayed various fashions that have been worn in the past couple hundred years, we also saw some wonderful needlework and painting on fabric in the India gallery. I wish I could share pictures, but the only pictures allowed in the Museum are from the atrium.
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