Textile
- Museum number:
- 9-21160
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21090021160
- Accession number:
- Acc.4703
- Description:
- Wedding cloth. Rectangular cloth, plain weave, with red-brown wqarp and red-brown, blue, off-white, pale pink, and pale green (2 different pale greens) weft stripes, and 5 bands supplementary weft. Ends cut, unhemmed, 318cm L x 33.5cm W.
- Donor:
- Eric Crystal
- Collection place:
- Vietnam
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Vietnam, Hoa Binh Province. White Tai.
- Collector:
- Eric Crystal
- Collection date:
- August-December 1999
- Materials:
- Weft [reassign]
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Textile samples
- Function:
- 2.0 Use not specified (Secular Dress and Accoutrements, and Adornment)
- Accession date:
- February 3, 2000
- Context of use:
- Wedding cloth. Per Eric Crystal’s notes: “Textiles such as these are woven by unmarried girls to manifest their skill at the loom. They are naturally dyed. These textiles form part of the lifelong textile collection which Tai women normally store in large trunks in their homes. The village which produced these textiles stopped weaving in 1996.”
- Department:
- Asia (except western Russia)
- Images:
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