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Wray Community Communications is a blog created for village information. Wray ComCom is a voluntary group working together to try to bridge the digital divide in this rural area and raise awareness of the benefits of broadband and ICT.

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The Lao Loum and Tai Phuan styles:
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The hem pieces, woven in a narrow band of compound weave were added to protect the main skirt cloth from damage. After the development of the silk industry in central Isan by King Rama V, the width of these tube-skirts increased from around thirty-six inches to forty inches tiffany & co schmuck and thus the waist band and/or hem piece were not added in central Isan areas after this period whereas the upper Isan pieces kept the old structure.
Some mat mi tube-skirts were woven on a red and black striped warp. These warps were normally prepared for the weaving of plain tube-skirts used by older women called "sin thieu" but may have been left over and used for mat mi designs which gave these pieces an extra dimension. The Lao Loum and Tai Phuan wove their silk ikats in a two shaft plain weave.
The Phutai style:
The silk mat mi tube-skirts of the Phutai in central Isan maintained Tiffany Großhandel their narrow width with added hem pieces and waist bands. The Phutai attached waist bands similar to the Tai Phuan, red silk with supplementary weft patterns. The hem pieces were very narrow, sometimes only an inch wide with dense compound weave in a strong ribbon-like form with bands of alternating colors. The Phutai favored red, yellow and green in their ikat patterns with black or dark purple as the ground color. The Phutai groups used a two shaft twill to weave their mat mi and preferred to weave the ikat yarns alternated with plain colored yarns creating a dot matrix effect. discounted tiffany This method of weaving mat mi was called mi luang.
The Khmer Sung style:
The Khmer Sung of lower Isan wove their mat mi with three shafts making this a distinct feature among other mat mi in Isan. Their favorite design was an intricate ikat pattern called "mi hol" used for women's tube-skirts. The original structure of the mi hol design was as a long cloth up to discounted tiffany Jewellery our meters in length to be worn in the pantaloon style by women. This method of wearing the cloth was called “chongkraben” which was used by both men and women.
The mi hol is an ancient design with strong taboos which have protected it against the winds of change. The tiny ikat pattern was made in yellow and green with a red or purple-brown ground. As the area was very dry they did not grow cotton and used their old silk mi hol tube-skirts to work in thus it is rare to find old pieces.
The Khmer Sung tube-skirts were much wider and longer tiffany schmuck online than other Isan textiles. Sometimes a white cotton waist band was added and rarely a separate hem piece made in mat mi was added. This unusual structure may have been added to imitate the borders of the Khmer long cloths. The structure of the long cloths was based on a trade textile known as the patola sari from India. Wpj

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