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This very big blanket or mantle of the wild growing giant-nettle (Girardinia diversifolia) and comes from the farthest east occurrence of nettle weaving along the Himalayan and Hengduan Mountain chain. Four fabric widths has been hand-sewn together. The nettle yarn is hand-spuned and woven into a fine warp face quality of 20 x 5 th/cm. The colored warp stripes is of syntetic yarns. The Deung weavers has today been famous, sometimes called "The rainbow weavers" because they often insert warp stripes in all the colors of the rainbow.

Big Mantel/Blanket of giant-nettle

SKU: 7094
240,00$Pris
Antal
  • China, Yunnan province, Dulong River valley, near the border with Myanmar (Burma) and Tibet Autonomous Region. Made by the Derung people, second-half of 1900s.

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