Longyi
late 1950s (made)
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Woman's longyi made of silk with a floating weft weave. It consists of a tube made up of a warp length of cloth sewn by hand across a weft seam, so that the warp runs horizontally around the body of the wearer. Dark red ground with weft yellow acheik (horizontal wave) patterns in 'joe gee jay' style ('jay' means 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 lines, in a sequence.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk |
| Brief description | Woman's longyi made of silk, Amarapura, late 1950s. |
| Physical description | Woman's longyi made of silk with a floating weft weave. It consists of a tube made up of a warp length of cloth sewn by hand across a weft seam, so that the warp runs horizontally around the body of the wearer. Dark red ground with weft yellow acheik (horizontal wave) patterns in 'joe gee jay' style ('jay' means 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 lines, in a sequence. |
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| 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.
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| Accession number | IS.110-1983 |
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| Record created | June 16, 1999 |
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