skirt cloth

Part of dance costume for tari tenun dancer. Skirt cloth of pink cotton fabric with green stripes in the warp and green and cream in the weft which divide the main field into squares. Each square is filled with a cream motif in supplementary weft, of 5 dots arranged as in a simplified four-petalled flower. At each warp end a supplementary weft design consisting of an inner border of a row of cream motifs, a larger row of outward and inward-facing triangles in several colours, and an outerborder of outward-pointing motifs in cream.

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