Woman's Tube Skirt
Name/Title
Woman's Tube SkirtEntry/Object ID
2025.3.5Description
A Qi Li tubular skirt from Hainan Island, China. The skirt features handspun cotton with blue-and-white warp ikats in dots and dashes, narrow bands of supplementary weft motifs, and a wider band of yellow geometric motifs in supplementary weft decoration. The piece was assembled from three panels that were woven separately on a backstrap loom and joined together. A tubular skirt described as "Mei Nai Li", from Luo Dong Xian.Acquisition
Accession
2025.3Source or Donor
Christopher BuckleyCredit Line
Gift of Christopher BuckleyMade/Created
Time Period
Early 20th CenturyTextile Details
Technique
Plain Weave, Supplementary-weft PatterningEthnography
Cultural Region
Island
HainanCountry
ChinaCulture/Tribe
Qi Li