This beautiful skirt was woven on a foot-powered treadle loom and then joined at weft ends to form a tube. The wearer steps into the tube, folding and wrapping excess cloth around her hips. A belt stabilizes the corte at the waist. The skirt has many stripes in different colors divided by ikat bands joined with the decorative embroidery finished on both sides called a randa. Metallic lurex thread the color of gold is embroidered onto the randa in a diamond and triangular pattern set between two lines going down the length of the randa. This skirt was made in the early 1960's.
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