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Description

Long rectangular textile with alternating bands of supplementary weft designs and straight weaving. Multi-coloured fringe on left and right edges. Right side bordered with indigo and pink thread braided together. Left side bordered with red and orange thread braided together. Top edge of textile has dark yellow band with repeating pattern of dark green star-like shapes. Band trimmed with burgundy and dark yellow stripes on top and indigo, light blue, white, pink and burgundy stripes below. Underneath that is another dark yellow band with repeating pattern of magenta star-like shapes. Bands below those, with the same stripe trim, alternate between the two coloured patterns until bottom four bands of textile. Four bottom bands, instead of star-like shapes, have infinity signs woven in alternating dark green and magenta. Bottom edge of textile has dark green stripe.

Narrative

Made for Brian Zapf by the King's royal tailor when he was a teacher in Bhutan in the 1970s.

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