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Description

Woman's wrap-around dress (kira). The dress is composed of three woven panels stitched together on the long edge to create a rectangular textile. Each panel is finished with three split stitches in blue and white or pink and green. Alternate yellow warp bands with plain weave brown-red ground. Small, brightly coloured designs are woven throughout the brown-red ground in pink, red, dark green, purple, white, leaving a larger spacing of red ground down the centre. Both long edges have solid green-brown bands which have two rows of one large brown-red band flanked by two thin brown-red bands through it. Fringe along short edge.

Narrative

Kira (dress), aikapur mense mathra style; made by Tsangla speaking peoples in eastern Bhutan, probably 1970s.

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