Ge Jia Cotton Baby Carrier

A T-shaped panel of salmon-red lattice with a sky-blue and white border.

This baby carrier is Ge Jia, from Guizhou Province, China, and dates to the 20th century. It is cotton & silk. Making a carrier involved every step from raising silkworms and producing silk to dyeing, embroidering, brocading and appliqué, and the work reflected a girl's love, devotion and creativity. Rows of small octagonal motifs sit in a diamond grid over a pinkish red ground. A stripe of white, blue and red lines runs around the edge, with deep blue triangles at the side corners. It is 25 inches wide and 28.5 long.

Pink in places, strict in all of them.