(JN 1997) - Rectangular length of cloth with a cream ground and multicoloured bands of patterning. It is fringed at the two short ends. The cream cotton ground appears to be a plain weave. The horizontal bands of coloured abstract designs were probably created using supplementary cotton weft. The blue-coloured thread is possibly indigo-dyed.

Collection type: Object
Description: (JN 1997) - Rectangular length of cloth with a cream ground and multicoloured bands of patterning. It is fringed at the two short ends. The cream cotton ground appears to be a plain weave. The horizontal bands of coloured abstract designs were probably created using supplementary cotton weft. The blue-coloured thread is possibly indigo-dyed.
Geographical reference: Myanmar (Burma)
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Myanmar (Burma); Thailand
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Thailand
Cultural groups: Tai; Shan
Person: Field collector Robert Gosset Woodthorpe; PRM source J. Dalton Woodthorpe
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1898
Date collected: By 1898
Acquisition information: Donated: 07/1924
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Pigment, Process Woven, Process Dyed, Process Embroidered, Process Supplementary Weft Woven
Dimensions: Length x Width 1420 x 222 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1924.38.9
Research and responses: The 'embroidery' referred to by the accession book and card catalogue entries is more likely to be supplementary weft. [SD 28/3/2000]
This is likely to be Shan from Burma or to be from another Tai group in Thailand. [SD 28/3/2000]

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