Towel or hanging in cream handwoven fabric, the central section divided by narrow bands of weft alternating blue and red. At each end a wide section with bands of patterning formed of supplementary weft, some of the supplementary weft being thick, resulting in a raised pattern. The blue and red are probably from natural dyes. Short fringes at the warp ends, tied off at the ends. 1.90 x 0.305 metres.
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