woman’s skirt cloth or hipwrapper (sampot hol)
silk ikat (silk cloth patterned with resist-dyed weft thread)
37 ¾ x 66 1/8 in.
Cambodia
age unknown; perhaps early 20th century
provenance: collected in Cambodia by Jack Daulton
Inv. no. 17
This beautiful skirt cloth is a Cambodian sarong or hipwrapper (known as a sampot in Khmer, the Cambodian language), consisting of silk cloth patterned with resist-dyed weft thread, a technique known as ikat in insular Southeast Asia and as hol in Cambodia.
Reference: Gillian Green. Traditional Textiles of Cambodia: Cultural Threads and Material Heritage. Chicago: Buppha Press, 2003
