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The fabric had turned into peat, but was still identifiable. Many bodies at the site had been wrapped in fabric before burial. Eighty-seven pieces of fabric were found associated with 37 burials. Researchers have identified seven different weaves in the fabric. One kind of fabric had 26 strands per inch (10 strands per centimeter).
Hessian (UK: / ˈ h ɛ s i ə n /, US: / ˈ h ɛ ʃ ə n / [1]), burlap in North America, [2] or crocus in Jamaica [3] and the wider Caribbean, is a woven fabric made of vegetable fibres, usually the skin of the jute plant [4] [5] [6] or sisal leaves. [7]
It gets its genus and current species name from its alternate common name of lagetto (a corruption of the Spanish word latigo, or whip) on Jamaica. [3] [7] [8] It is known as laget à dentelle or bois dentelle on Haiti and daguilla or guanilla in the Dominican Republic and Cuba. It is also known in one part of western Jamaica as white bark. [3]
In 1997, reviewing the exhibition Transforming the Crown: African, Asian and Caribbean Artists in Britain, 1966–1996, in which McNish participated at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, with other CAM artists, The New York Times reported that she "produces abstract, geometric fabric designs inspired by African motifs".
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Women wearing the quadrille dress greet King Charles III and Queen Camilla in Jamaica. A Quadrille dress is a bespoke [citation needed] dress worn by women in Caribbean countries. The quadrille dress is the folk costume of Jamaica, Dominica and Haiti. It is known by a different name in each country.
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Michael Manley in a short-sleeved Kariba suit, 1970s. A Kariba or Kareeba suit is a two-piece suit for men created by Jamaican designer Ivy Ralph, mother of Sheryl Lee Ralph, in the early 1970s to be worn on business and formal occasions as a Caribbean replacement for the European-style suit and a visual symbol of decolonisation. [1]