Textile sample

Vietnamese sampler with the typical patterns of Thai shawls. Patterns woven with coloured silk threads on a black cotton ground: a row of human/spirit figures, a horse motif with a bird on its back, dyed with aniline dye (for a version of the same pattern woven with black and white threads, see: on sampler No. 64.44.1) Gift of the Institute of Cultural Relations, March 3rd, 1964.