Tubular skirt for a woman made from tabby-woven silk decorated with sets of green vertical stripes, alternating with dark green stripes decorated with white, and pink weft ikat. The ikat patterned stripes alternate between ones framed with white, and ones without a white frame within the stripe. The framed ones contain 2 alternating types of cruciform motifs, with and without a pink centre. Those with motifs with pink centres at have a dotted s- or z-shape linking the motifs. At top and bottom of each ikat-patterned stripe is a small dotted curved line.The ikat stripes are separated by sets of plain stripes. The slightly wider, mid-green one at the centre is framed by narrow, alternating lighter and darker green ones. On the side with the framed ikat stripe are only 2 lighter green ones, on the other side of the set are 3 lighter green ones. The central seam is framed by a set of plain stripes. The textile is hemmed along one selvedge.
skirt; textile; samphot hol
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