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Outerwear/handling collection

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Summary

: 2000/037/050

: British Empire & Commonwealth

: Outerwear/handling collection

: Burmese skirt - rare Kachin women's skirt {? Burma 1940}. Very fine weaving in a diamond pattern. Hand woven in red wool with coloured wool geometric patterns. The fabric is a flat rectangle consisting of three strips of fabric 240 mm wide which is joined lengthways by hand. Woven with a black warp. Top panel in black with coloured weaving at each end. The skirt is held up with bamboo rings 2000/037/051.

Current Location

: British Empire & Commonwealth Museum Collection

: Myanmar (Burma), South East Asia, Asia

: Transferred from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, 2012

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