Silk and Gold Thread Hip Wrapper for Royalty

This phaa yok (metallic brocade) textile with mat mii (ikat) embellishment, woven in an Indian-style but likely produced in Nakhon Si Thammarat in southern Thailand,, is decorated with the phum khao bin (“heads of rice”) pattern in the main field and three borders at each end, both features that indicate this textile was intended for royalty.