Table Runner

Textile purchased from a shop in Mae Sot that sells crafts made for the "Karen Women Organization Income Generation Project". The women making the textiles/crafts are confined to refugee camps in northern Thailand. They use traditional looms or backstrap weaving and natural dye techniques to produce various textiles, which are sold with "Karen Refugee Women Handicrafts" labels, through outside shops. Some traditional items have been adapted to modern forms, such as carrying bags (e.g., 3056/8), and the shops also sell T-shirts (e.g., 3056/9).

Long, finely woven table runner. A slight linear pattern is woven into the runner, changing to a zigzag pattern close to each end, upon which are 10 diamond shaped motifs in light pink, in two lines of five. The runner culminates in thick twisted fringe at each end. Front is distinguishable from back by the weave of the pink motifs.