Woman's long tunic (khreng tan)
Dateca. 1925–50
MediumCotton, silk, and glass beads; warp-faced tabby with supplementary weft patterns
Dimensions35 13/16 × 30 7/8 inches (91 × 78.4 cm)
CultureBurma, Rakhine State, Sungtu Chin
ClassificationsTextiles
Credit LineAcquired through the George and Mary Rockwell Fund
Terms
- Textiles
- Burmese
- Cotton
- Silk
- Glass beads
- Clothing
Object number2005.072.020
Label CopyTextiles represent the most important artistic production of the various Chin communities that inhabit areas of Burma, India, and Bangladesh. Textiles reflect status and wealth of the wearer and are important items of exchange, whether through marriage price, gift-giving, the hosting of merit feasts, or trade. Women weave textiles of local cotton, or silk gained through trade, and dye the yarns using local and imported dyes. Using simple back-strap body-tension looms, the various Chin groups achieve complex, distinctive patterns using weft-faced or warp-faced weaves with supplementary wefts and, in some traditions, so-called “false embroidery.”Collections
1925–50
