Clothes and Wearing

Today, Tai Neua women are still industrious weavers of cotton and fine quality silk “phaa sins” (long cloth worn as skirt) Many households earn additional income from their member’s weaving skills, selling the “phaa sins” as far away as the capital Vientiane. Tai Neua men are skilled weavers of bamboo mats, containers and baskets. Besides that the Neua work as agriculturists, growing wet rice, maize, cassava and vegetables

Laos, Ban Neua

Sin Mi (Woman's Funerary Skirt), Late 19th century

 

Sin Mi (Woman's Funerary Skirt), Late 19th century

Silk and cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; resist dyed; edged with cotton and silk, plain weave
149.8 x 78.8 cm (59 x 31 in.)
Warp repeat: 48.9-50.3 cm (19 1/4-19 3/4 in.)
Christa C. Mayer Thurman Textile Endowment, 1997.189