Tubular skirt made from tabby-woven silk textile decorated with fine paired vertical stripes alternating with wider stripes containing weft ikat. The paired stripes alternate between purple and green. The ikat stripes contain short diagonals and finer diagonals created by short dashes in orange on a red ground. To either side of the central vertical seam are wider stripes. These show green diagonals on purple on one side, and orange diagonals on purple on the other due to the weave. One selvedge has been folded over twice, the other only once.
skirt; textile; samphot hol
Collection Information
These objects are only a part of our collections, of which there are more than 350,000 objects. This information comes from our collections database. Some of this is incomplete and there may be errors. This part of the website is also still under construction, so there may be some fields repeated or incorrectly formatted information.
The database sometimes uses language taken from historical documents to help research, which may now appear outdated and even offensive. The database also includes information on objects that are considered secret or sacred by some communities.
If you have any further information about objects in our collections or can suggest corrections to our information, please contact us: enquiry@horniman.ac.uk