This tunic features various flower, animal and human motifs embroidered in gold thread.Up to early 20th century, Peranakan Chinese brides wore Chinese garments for their weddings and decorated their wedding beds with Chinese embroideries and beadwork. Such garments and bed textiles were typically decorated with auspicious Chinese motifs like phoenixes, dragons, and peonies embroidered in gold thread.Indonesian Peranakan wedding costumes tended to be more extravagant than the ones used in Singapore, Malacca and Penang. The costumes in Indonesia were often sewed with pure silver and gold threads with some having sequins of pure gold and set with rough cut diamonds.
