Tubular skirt, with main panel of vertical stripes, some with small weft ikat designs, some with continuous supplementary weft patterns, these small stripes dividing the wider designs panels which alternate between weft ikat on an alternately red and dark blue ground and supplementary weft in various colours, some depicting birds. Black waistband sewn to top edge, band of striped fabric sewn to lower hem. Unworn. Laos (AF14)
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