This shoulder cloth was woven in two sections which were sewn together lengthwise. The dense geometric patterns in red, yellow and black, were produced by the supplementary weft weaving technique. The cloth is edged with tiny glass beads. Mro Arang women also make long loincloths and blankets with similar designs to this shoulder cloth. The Mro Arang are one of many Chin communities living in the Chin State of Myanmar bordering the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh. Their rich textile tradition comprises mainly cloth woven on back-tension looms with colourful supplementary weft patterning - a technique that requires additional threads to be woven across the horizontal (weft) plane of the loom.
