A woven textile which has been folded and stitched to make a type of hanging by its last owner. It has black and green zig zag and diamond bands, worked in continuous supplementary weft, on a natural coloured cotton ground. There is a row of black human figures nearest the warp ends and a further row of smaller, green, human figures. About half of the textile is folded over and hiddden by a natural coloured lining. A narrow bamboo cane has been threaded through a tube made for the purpose.
sample (textileworking: weaving); textile
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