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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Rakhine (made)

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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Category	India Museum
Object type	Apron
Materials and techniques	Cotton. Woven with supplementary weave. Stitching. Cotton Weaving 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.
Dimensions	Length: 41cm Width: 49cm
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
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	05486(IS)

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Record created	November 24, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O86232/apron-unknown/

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