Yardage of a tabby woven silk(?) textile decorated with warp ikat in cream, yellow, pink, violet, blue, and green. The pattern consists of 4 stripes containing roughly triangular shapes with irregular outlines. In 2 stripes the pink and green shapes alternate with cream ones. In the other 2 blue and violet shapes alternate with yellow ones. The cream and yellow triangles contain short stripes of pink at their widest ends.
yardage; textile
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