A work made of cotton and silk, warp striped, warp-faced plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; end embroidered with cotton and wool in buttonhole stitches; couching; cotton, piled and knotted corner tassels.

Woman's Breast-Cover (ah khin)

1930/55

Khami Chin Burma, NW Rakhine State

Myanmar

Cotton and silk, warp striped, warp-faced plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; embellished with discontinuous supplementary wrapping elements; end embroidered with cotton and wool in buttonhole stitches; couching; cotton, piled and knotted corner tassels

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