Rectangular cream tabby-woven textile with coloured bands woven in supplementary weft. The warp ends are knotted to create decorative fringing at one shorter side. Narrow zigzag patterned bands alternate with wider patterned bands, 2 of which also contain a zigzag pattern in blue-black. A third one at the centre has 2 narrow sections woven in red. The other 2 wider bands contain X-shaped motifs alternating with star-shaped motifs. Both contain some red sections as well as the blue-black.
textile (function unknown); textile
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