Sweden traditional waistcoat

Costumes

Inventory number
2025.7.29.2.CO.ET.C1900.SE
Description
Sweden festive black velvet men's waistcoat with traditional bead embroidery.
The short waistcoat has white, blue and amber seed beads embroidery in square-shape on the chest and in scattered stylized flowers on the whole vest, lining with green/white pinstriped cotton. Has hooks and eyes fastening (on the left side).
Materials
Velvet
Beads
Origin
circa 1900 Sweden

Exhibition History
• 2025.07.31–2025.08.29. ‘Moments of our Youth. From the collection of Alexandre Vassiliev foundation.’ Visaginas Festival of Spaces 2025, Visaginas Cultural Center ‘Draugystė‘, Visaginas, Lithuania.