Woman's tubular skirt cloth composed of two lengths of handwoven cotton fabric hand-sewn together along the selvedge, the resulting rectangle hand-sewn along the warp ends into a tube. The two sections are identical, having a panel of plain red and upper and lower ends respectively, the rest of the ground being decorated with stripes of various colours in the warp, with some ikat designs in some of the wider stripes, these mostly orange against black.
skirt cloth
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