A tube skirt, or 'pha sin'. Patterned in ikat (or 'mudmee') with pale grey linked triangles with a dark blue ground. The ikat is weft faced, but the skirt has been machine sewn at the warp ends. There is a solid blue band top and bottom and attached to the bottom edge is a warp faced tabby woven band. This is called the 'tin sin'. It has a purple / cream band in the centre (with some regularly spaced floats) flanked by solid purple bands, and outside are yellow / green bands (all woven as stripes but worn as bands). The weaver, Chimpee Khodhadsadee, from whom the tube skirt was purchased, called this patterning 'faa pit maw', which means 'pot lid'. [Textile]
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