Tai Yuan woman's tube skirt with jok panel in silks, with a competition winner's rosette. At the top is a waistband in natural cream cotton, handspun and handwoven, attached to the main body of the skirt. This has a plain red band above the main section which is yellow with horizontal stripes evenly spaced across the ground, interspersed wiith a grey stripe and pairs of gold stripes at regular intervals. Below this is sewn the jok panel consisting of supplementary weft patterning in a variety of colours and geometrical patterns against a plain red tabby woven base cloth, of which a section has been left unembellished at the bottom of the skirt. A label with script in Thai is stapled towards the hem of the skirt, and a red cloth rosette stapled alongside.
tube skirt
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