Circa 1975

Sizes: 87 x 31, 75 x 29, 86 x 37, 80 x 13

Origin: Karen State near Thai border
Homespun cotton of red and white stripe design, with green, yellow, blue or bright red supplementary weft. Examples show Karen also use natural dyes, usually brown. Two joined sections are often made into woman's tunic shirt, one into headcloth. Warp, at times also weft, threads are woven into long tassels, which on occasion may be embellished with beads and iridescent green beetle wings as in an example of a Karen "singing shawl" below.

*Related, see Lawa Burial Shrounds and Lawa hill tribe of Thailand