Nine garments, one label, and one bag.

Note 01 / frames 03, 04, 05, 06

The navy hooded jacket

Four of the thirteen frames are this one garment, photographed closed, then opened, then closer, then closer again. It is the best documented object in the archive and the only one where the inside and the outside are both readable.

• Full length front zip, running into a collar that stands up when the front is closed.
• Attached hood, lined in a darker cloth than the shell, with a cord toggle at each side of the opening.
• A dark loop patch on the outer face of each cuff. Both are in frame together in frame 03.
• Two angled side pockets, each with a zip along the full opening.
• Inner face quilted in wide horizontal channels.
• The blue woven label at the inside collar, with the white M tag directly beneath it.

What the outer cloth is, what sits between the shell and the lining, and how the garment behaves in any weather are all outside what a photograph can show, and none of them is stated anywhere in this archive.

Note 02 / frames 01, 02

The dark grey jacket on the table

Photographed twice on the same table, first held open and then opened wider. The two frames are minutes apart at most: the objects along the far edge do not move between them.

• A plain outer face with no quilting visible on the shell side.
• Full length front zip, and an attached hood spread flat above the collar.
• A blue label at the inside collar with a small pale tag beneath it, legible as an object but not as words at this distance.
• A hanging loop at each shoulder, beside the collar.

Whether this is the same garment as the one in the carpet frames cannot be settled from the pictures, so it is not claimed. Two dark grey jackets photographed on two surfaces are recorded as two entries until something proves otherwise.

Note 03 / frame 07

The periwinkle jacket, and the tan one under it

One frame, two garments. The blue one is the subject and the tan one is underneath, showing only its sleeves, its hood and a border of quilted body around the edges of the picture.

• Blue jacket: tall stand collar, full length front zip, and a hook and loop tab at each cuff.
• Blue jacket: two side pockets, each with a zip along the opening.
• Tan jacket: quilted sleeves and a darker hood, spread above the blue collar.
• The carpet, and a round metal disc with a pole standing in it at the top right.

Neither garment shows a label in this frame, so neither is tied to the label seen elsewhere in the archive. They are described as two objects in one picture, and nothing more is inferred from their being photographed together.

Note 04 / frame 08

The charcoal quilted jacket

The most heavily quilted garment in the set, and the only one photographed with its hood placed on the floor above the collar rather than behind it.

• Quilting in continuous horizontal channels, across the body and down both sleeves.
• A cord toggle at each side of the hood opening.
• A further cord toggle at the hem corner, and gathered cuffs rather than tabbed ones.
• Small printed lettering on both sleeves, which is not legible at this resolution.

Two things are deliberately left open. The lettering on the sleeves is not read, not identified and not reproduced anywhere in this archive. And whether the hood detaches, or was simply laid back for the photograph, is not something the frame settles, so it is not stated either way.

Note 05 / frame 09

The grey jacket with no hood

Worth a note of its own precisely because of what it lacks. Every other jacket in the archive has a hood in view. This one does not, in the frame that shows its front or in any other view of it.

• A tall stand collar, with the front zip closed into the top of it.
• A yoke seam running across the upper chest, shoulder to shoulder.
• Angled hand pocket openings low on both sides.
• No hood behind the collar. Recorded as an absence, not as a design feature.

Absence is a weaker reading than presence, and it is graded that way. Not seeing a hood in a photograph is not the same as knowing the garment has none, and this note claims only the first.

Note 06 / frame 10

The charcoal jacket with a tag, and the olive one under it

The only garment in the archive still carrying a tag when it was photographed, and the only frame taken wider than it is tall.

• A hood folded down behind a raised collar band.
• A pointed flap pocket at each side of the lower body, and a small pocket high on one sleeve.
• A ribbed hem, gathered in tighter than the body above it.
• A small paper tag tied at the front, with handwriting on it.
• Underneath: an olive garment showing pale lining at both sleeve ends and a hood beside the charcoal one.

The handwriting on the tag cannot be read at this resolution. It is recorded as an object in the frame and is not transcribed, guessed at, or treated as evidence of anything.

Note 07 / frame 11

The olive parka

Four kinds of pocket on one garment, which nothing else in the archive comes close to. The body reads longer than the jackets photographed around it, though nothing in the frame gives a scale, so no length is stated.

• A row of snap studs down the front placket and at the collar, with a zip beneath the placket.
• Vertical welt pockets at chest height, one at each side.
• Flapped lower pockets, each closing on a single stud.
• A zipped pocket set horizontally on one sleeve.
• A pale lining showing at the hood, at both sleeve ends and along the hem.
• A cord toggle at each side of the hood opening.

The pale lining is a colour contrast and is recorded as one. What it is made of, and what if anything sits between it and the outer cloth, is not visible and is not named.

Note 08 / frame 12

The off white jacket with the dark panel

This is the garment that produced the one correction in the archive, and the note is written around that rather than around the garment's better features.

• A large dark rectangular panel set on the chest, cut from a different cloth from the body.
• One zip pull at the upper corner of that panel.
• Two lower pockets, both plain welt openings with no zip teeth and no pulls.
• Both cuffs plain and rounded, with no tab of any kind on either sleeve.
• An attached hood, propped open, lined in pale grey.

An earlier reading of this garment credited it with hook and loop cuffs and with zipped lower pockets. Going back to the same frame at high zoom, on both sleeve ends and both pocket openings, showed neither. The tabs are real, but on other garments; they are recorded in notes 01 and 03, where they can actually be seen.

Note 09 / frame 13

The tote

The only patterned textile anywhere in the archive, and the only object that is not a garment. It sits on a darker wood than the table in the first six frames.

• A red ground carrying a repeating white and gold motif across the whole body.
• A woven band across the top, striped vertically in red, green, grey and white, carrying small cross figures.
• Blue binding tape along both edges of that band.
• Two straps cut from the body cloth, folded up and stitched down onto the band.

No fibre, no weave name and no origin is given for either cloth, because none of that is legible in the photograph and none was supplied. The pattern is described by what it looks like and not by what it might be called.

Note 10 / frames 02, 04, 05, 06

The label

The same small blue rectangle appears in four frames, on two different garments, always at the inside collar at the back of the neck. It is the strongest evidence in the whole archive, and it is the only place where a name is attached to any of these objects by the objects themselves.

• A bright blue ground, roughly rectangular, sewn into the collar seam.
• The wordmark DOKPA, in white capitals, with a registered mark beside it.
• Beneath the wordmark, in smaller capitals, MADE IN NEPAL. Legible only in frame 06.
• An emblem in white outline above the wordmark, which is not identified anywhere in this archive.
• A separate white tag beneath the label, printed with a single letter M.

That M is the only size marking in thirteen photographs. It is recorded as a marking on one garment and nothing more, and no size range appears anywhere on this site.