Section of a woman's shawl or a headcloth, collected as an example of weaving from the Mirdite Catholic peoples from Prizren, Kosovo. The cotton ground fabric has diamond and zig zag patterns in multi-coloured silk and cotton threads and gold-coloured metal-wrapped thread. At the hem is a woven band of red cotton with small diamond and zig zag motifs.
sample (textiles); textile
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