Longyi

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Artist/Maker	Unknown
Place of origin	Mandalay (made)

Woman's longyi of silk with a floating weft weave. White ground with acheik (horizontal wave patterns) black pattern in 'joe gee jay' style ('Jay' mean hook or line). The pattern of these bands is of several parallel wavy lines, broken by a diagonal bar with a single blossom within the waves; of three wavy bands; and broken interwoven way lines, in a sequence.

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Categories	Womenswear Textiles
Object type	Longyi
Materials and techniques	Silk Silk (Textile) Weaving
Brief description	Woman's longyi of silk, Mandalay, late 1950s
Physical description	Woman's longyi of silk with a floating weft weave. White ground with acheik (horizontal wave patterns) black pattern in 'joe gee jay' style ('Jay' mean hook or line). The pattern of these bands is of several parallel wavy lines, broken by a diagonal bar with a single blossom within the waves; of three wavy bands; and broken interwoven way lines, in a sequence.
Dimensions	Length: 170cm Width: 110cm 1983 dimensions are from the accession register.
Credit line	Bequeathed by the misses J. L. and B. Naylor 1983, on behalf of the late Mr. and Mrs. P. Naylor.
Object history	This longyi was acquired by the donor while he was living in Burma between 1955 and 1959.
Bibliographic reference	Fraser-Lu, Sylvia. Handwoven Textiles of South-East Asia Oxford University Press; 1988. 57 & 86p.
Collection	South & South East Asia Collection
Accession number	IS.107-1983

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Record created	June 15, 1999
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O11220/longyi-unknown/

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