Ethno Echo
 
ANDEAN TEXTILES
tribal clothing tribal baby carrier tribal textile tribal jewelry tribal crafts
Zhuang Baby Blanket

T17 - Zhuang Baby Blanket

Price: $300

T18 -Maonan Blanket

Price: $700

Maonan Blanket
Maonan Blanket

T20 -Antique Maonan Blanket

Price: $700

T21 -Antique Maonan Blanket

Price: $250

Maonan Blanet

T1 -Miao Blanket

Price: $250

T2 -Zhuang Blanket

Price: $450

T22 - Zhuang Blanket

Price: $450

T23 -Zhuang Blanket

Price: $450

T24 - Zhuang Blanket

Price: $600

T25 - Maonan Blanket

Price: $450

Miao Embroidery

T3 -Miao Embroidered Patch
9"/13"

T4 -Miao Apron - Huaxi

Price: $60 each

Miao Huaxi Embroidery
Ta-Oi Tube Skirt

T5 -Ta-Oi Cloth

Price: $600

T6 -Hmong Tapestry
70"/84"

Price: $160

Hmong Embroidery

T7 -Hmong Embroidery
70"/84"

Price: $50 each

T8 -Miao Embroidered Patch
11"/13"

Price: $40 each

Miao Shidong Embroidery
Miao Head Cover

T12 -Miao Hand Woven Head Cover
12.5" / 17"

Price: sold!

T13 -Miao Batik
18.5"/18.5"

Miao Batik

T17 -Bird Motif panel
21"/25"

Price: $220

T16 -Miao Batik Banner
12"/128"

Price: $140

Miao Mystical Figures Batik Textile

To inherit the oustanding historical cultural legacies of the hill tribes people, EthnoEcho offers you the unique pieces selected for quality, authenticity and value.

Hill tribe women in general draw on a staggering array of decorative devices from both the natural world and the modern. These combinations may startle uninitiated visitors, but they soon find that their aesthetic sense, in the tribal environment, quickly accepts the local norms. And they leave with the feeling that traditional dress makes even tribal "plain Janes" look fetching. When city women go shopping for clothes and jewelry they purchase ready-made items. Hill women make their own outfits and only buy the components. Some tribal women weave their own cloth as well. They weavers lay in decorative patterns while the cloth is still on the loom. Sometimes they weave belts and shoulder-bag cloth, but buy the the main costume parts in bolts of different colors. Some do not weave, but like the Hmong/Miao are meticulous embroiderers.

Girls of all tribes become adept with spindles, needles and thread at an early age, not from any formal training, but just by copying what their big sisters and mothers are doing. In the most remote villages, where tribes have to make their own clothes because they can't afford to buy any, females of all ages spin thread whenever their hands are free and there's enough light from the sun, the moon or an oil lamp. And they learn to weave as soon as their legs are long enough to reach the threadles.

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