Tubular skirt for a woman made from tabby-woven silk textile decorated with green, and orange vertical stripes, alternating with purple stripes containing pink ikat motifs. The ikat patterned stripes alternate between wider, and narrower ones. The wider ones contain quatrefoil motifs. The narrower ones contain dashes. The ikatted stripes are separated by sets of stripes consisting of a central green one, framed by 2 shades of orange. To either side of the central seam is a wider, plain purple stripe.
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