Glossary

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  • Cloth, skirt.

  • Cloth.

  • Skirt cloth made by the ikat technique.

  • A flatwoven (pile-less) floor covering. The technique of kelim is slit tapestry.
  • Head, referring to a part of the body or a local leader.
  • (Indonesia) a ceremonial dagger, owned and worn by a man, part of his ceremonial attire.

  • A technique using a single element or yarn in which a loop is drawn through a previous loop at the edge of a fabric. It first appeared during the Middle Ages, probably in the Islamic world, and spread to Europe, and from Europe to the Americas.

  • (Pueraria sp) type of bast fiber made from the wild kudzu vine.