Length of Silk Textile

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Ava (made) Burma

Length of cloth which would have possibly formed half of a pah-soe (man's wrap around skirt). Three pattern repeats of weft acheik (horizontal wave patterns) stripes in lime, yellow and white on a warp ground of repeating bands of red, yellow, black and white.

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Category	India Museum
Object type	Length of silk textile
Materials and techniques	Silk luntaya (one hundred shuttles) interlocking tapestry weave. Silk (Textile) Weaving
Brief description	Burmese silk acheik-luntaya multi-coloured cloth; Konbaung Dynasty (1752-1885), ca. 1850. Decorated with a variety of running wave patterns.
Physical description	Length of cloth which would have possibly formed half of a pah-soe (man's wrap around skirt). Three pattern repeats of weft acheik (horizontal wave patterns) stripes in lime, yellow and white on a warp ground of repeating bands of red, yellow, black and white.
Dimensions	Length: 475cm Width: 66cm
Style	Konbaung
Object history	Transferred from the India Museum in 1879. 1880 Register Entry: [Case 16] '0488. SILK. Piece of, spiral stripes; Burmah. 3693'
Production	Presented to the India Museum in 1855.
Bibliographic reference	Fraser-Lu, Sylvia. Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia Oxford University Press, 1988. 50 & 90p. ill.
Other number	3693 - India Museum Slip Book
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	0488(IS)

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Record created	May 5, 1999
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11015/length-of-silk-unknown/

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