. "Rectangular shan weft-ikat longyi cloth formed by two identical panels hand-stitched along the weft edge. The lower part woven in coloured silks, the upper in cotton with a small quantity of silk. The upper part has a thin check in yellow, pale-blue, and red and white silks, on a chestnut coloured cotton and silk ground. The end is turned back and sewn to admit a running string. The lower part has many horizontal bands, broad and narrow, decorated with a great variety of geometrically-treated motives including fret, hook, dot, cloud and floral motives, chiefly in white, purple and shades of green, yellow and red. Dyed silk and cotton, woven in plain weave, bands of repeating weft-ikat with a red warp as well as supplementary weft tapestry with little flowers. Without bands of inter-locking tapestry."@en . . .