- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Woman’s skirt of white cotton cloth with black and white patterned borders.
- Long description
- Woman’s skirt of white cotton cloth with black and white patterned borders. The cloth is formed of four narrow strips of warp-faced cotton textile stitched together with white thread. The two long edges are patterned with alternating black and white rectangles, with some areas of short transverse black and white lines. These patterns are formed by supplementary warps of black cotton thread which float over and under the weave, creating the negative pattern on the underside. The same black and white pattern appears in the centre of the cloth, extending 465mm from one edge before stopping. On one side of the cloth the black supplementary warp threads hang in a tassel from the end of the pattern. Each of these black and white stripes are bordered by narrow lines of red and blue in the warp. In addition to the black and white stripes, there are four stripes of red flanked by blue spaced evenly across the rest of the cloth. In the centre of the cloth are six very thin blue lines in the warp which run for the entire length, while the red lines, which flank the central black and white pattern, fade to white partway down. The short edges are sewn up with white and red stitching.
- Cultural groups
- Tangkhul Naga
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1938
- Date collected
- 1938 - 1939
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 06/1988
- Materials and processes
- Material Cotton Seed Fibre Textile Plant, Process Woven, Process Stitched, Process Supplementary Warp Woven, Material Cotton Seed Fibre Yarn Plant
- Dimensions
- Width 610 mm, Length 1202 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1988.27.3
1988.27.3
Woman’s skirt of white cotton cloth with black and white patterned borders.
1988.27.3
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