6 juillet 2018
Corinne Thepaut-Cabasset, « "M" is for Mantón de Manila: Spanish shawls of Asian origin and cross-cultural design influences. Laura Beltran-Rubio, MA Fashion Studies, Parsons School of Design, New York City (USA) », Dressing the new world, ID : 10670/1.w3od0r
The mantón de Manila (Manila shawl) is one of the most symbolic elements of hispanic dress that, in recent history, has become an almost essential garment in museum collections of costume around the world. Traditionally made out of silk, Manila shawls are often embroidered with colorful floral motifs made out of silk threads and bordered with long, braided fringes. Drawing on rice paper, Anonym, Peru, 0,275 m x 0,185 m. Madrid, Museo de América, Inv 1999/01/33 In most cases, they worn aroun...