Headwrapper (ta po lai)
Lauktu Chin
1930–1955
- Medium
- Sides: cotton, warp striped, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave; ends embroidered with cotton in double running stitches terminating in cotton, knotted cut fringe tassels at selvage edge; center: cotton, warp-faced, weft ribbed plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; all warp ends twined, plied, and knotted over cotton, cut to form pom-poms
- Dimensions
- 157 × 68.6 cm (61 3/4 × 27 in.)
- Genre
- Textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
cotton (textile)fringedknottingTextileweavingembroideringplain weaving