Tubular skirt made from tabby-woven silk textile decorated with weft ikat in blue-black, white, yellow and red. Along one selvedge, a separate band of red silk, decorated with patterned bands has been sewn on. The ikat consists of a band decorated with blue-black zigzag pattern with white accents. On one side is a border consisting of 2 separate bands. The inner one is decorated with a central blue-black zigzag. The outer one is plain yellow border. The sets of stripes on the added band consists of a central blue or green stripe, flanked by stripes in the other colour. They are decorated with, or bisected by, woven, geometric patterns in white or yellow.
skirt; textile; samphot hol
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