Petticoat of black cotton with white band at top, ornamented with cowries sewn on in threes to form trefoils, and in twelves to form double lines, with slight embroidery in red: Assam, Ghukwi Village, Sema Nagas

Woman's petticoat, part of a mantua court dress, of mid blue and white silk, trimmed with very narrow white and blue silk lace in a fan pattern: English or French, about 1760 - 1765

Woman's hooped petticoat of pink, brown, blue and white striped linen, stiffened with cane or whalebone: British, about 1750 - 1775

Petticoat, part of a mantua court dress, of bright yellow silk worn at a ball at Holyrood in 1760 by Helen Robertson of Ladykirk: British, c. 1760

Woman's hoops or framed petticoat, in linen with a narrow brown stripe, waistband in orange-red linen tape, fastening at each side, skirt in a narrow oval shape with six integrated supporting bands of whalebone, bands decrease in size from hem to waistband so that the hoop can collapse within itself for flat storage: British, c. 1740 - 1760

Skirt or petticoat of woman's court mantua, in cream silk brocaded in coloured silks with floral design and a pattern of snaking bands of stripes in gold, very wide, shaped to be worn with a hoop or panniers, waisband bound with linen tape: British, probably 1750s