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This has recently been dry cleaned.

 

A vintage Bhutanese (Dzongkha: དཀྱི་ར་, དཀྱིས་རས) - traditional women’s dress woven by hand. It consists of three hand woven panels just over 1.8m/ 6ft each that are sewn together. It comprises of a central woven panel flanked by two identical side panels.

Kira are always rectangular and are made from three handwoven panels joined in the warp direction. Each end is finished with a neat fringe made by twisting several warp ends together and tying a knot. Kira are wrapped around the body with the design oriented horizontally and fastened with a brooch on the left shoulder.  This has been made with really joyful coloured embroidery.

 

207cm x 135m / 81" x 53".  

Wonderful hand woven and embroidered Bhutanese silk throw

SKU: SL26-TXT-64
£850.00Price
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