Rectangular, tabby-woven cotton and silk fibre headcloth decorated with multicoloured bands of varying widths. The textile has 7 plied fringes sewn, evenly spaced onto both longer, hemmed sides. 2 sets of narrow bands are worked with short dicontinuous silk and cotton weft (in the light and dark pink, light blue, orange, and green as used for the bands), creating an pattern reminiscient of ikat.
headcloth
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