A length of textile, a banner, with repeating imagery worked in weft-faced ikat. The purple ground fabric, made of a synthetic fibre, perhaps nylon, is worked in a lozenge twill. The imagery comprises a pattern repeat which includes two confronting elephants with four people riding on top, a tree motif and two women with yoked baskets. It is worked in weft faced ikat, producing images in cream, red, yellow and green. It is said to depict the Vessantara, the story of the ninth of the ten previous lives of the Buddha. Inscription. [Textile]
banner (ritual & belief: representations); yardage; textile
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