Apron
c. 1850 (made)
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Made of two panels of navy handwoven fabric (24.2 cm wide) hand stitched along the selvage to make one piece. A vertical band (3 cm. wide) formed of geometric patterns in red and blue is woven in the middle of each panel. Narrow twisted and knotted fringe at one end and a rolled hem at the other. Narrow woven striped end border of red and yellow.
Object details
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Materials and techniques | Cotton. Woven with supplementary weave. Stitching. |
Brief description | An apron like garment with fringed hem of the "Laytu" or "Laytoo" ethnic group, a Chin people from Rakhine (Arracan) State, Burma. Blue woven cotton with geometric patterns of red and blue in supplementary weave. c. 1850 |
Physical description | Made of two panels of navy handwoven fabric (24.2 cm wide) hand stitched along the selvage to make one piece. A vertical band (3 cm. wide) formed of geometric patterns in red and blue is woven in the middle of each panel. Narrow twisted and knotted fringe at one end and a rolled hem at the other. Narrow woven striped end border of red and yellow. |
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Marks and inscriptions | Label on garment: "India-Bengal, an apron, Arracan". repeated in French. |
Production | 1880 Slip Book states that this garment was received from Arracan in 1855. Further attribution by David W. Fraser, The Textile Museum of Wahington, D.C., 2003 is that it is of a Chin group "Laytu" or "Laytoo" ethnic group from Rakhine (Arracan) State. |
Other number | 3962 - India Museum Slip Book |
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Accession number | 05486(IS) |
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Record created | November 24, 2003 |
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