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MATERIALS: Synthetics cloth, beads, cotton threads , tassels, mirrors, rickrack. CONSTRUCTION: Hand and machine embroidered, square chain, interlaced , cretan, buttonhole, couched, detached chain stitches. MOTIFS: Limbudi tak, makodiyun, gol tak mokre, ardho goto, and ardho dhabo. COLOURS : Multicoloured on green and orange. STYLE REMARKS: Motifs formed from a series of borders and filling area completely were popular during mid 1970's-1980's. CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE: This style cap is one traditional to Sindh, from where Rabari of Kutch migrated. CULTURAL REMARKS: This is the most recent of several styles of children's hats. Typically, it would have silver bells and a gold talisman Stitched into the front edge and a beaded ornamene (chotlo) hanging down the back. The earliest style was pointed, sometimes quilted. Small children used to wear round caps, sometimes also embellished with beads. Toplo, Boy's hat.
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Last modified on: February 22, 2013