"Pah Lop" a Tai Lue mattress cover cloth from Udomxay, Laos. It is made from two long panels of hand spun cotton sewn together forming a big 1m. x 2m. rectangle piece of cloth. About 2/3 of the piece is decorated with continuous supplementary weft work in various abstract and animal motifs. All natural dye (deep indigo and maroon. The piece terminates at the end with lovely macrame warp work. Estd. age : 60-80 years old. Nice piece for ethnographic collecting purpose !