Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue Card reads:

'1918.(E) 215 (7-13). SRI LANKA.

Seven mats, including 4 oblong with coloured horizontal stripes or bands.

Stanmore Colln. 1912'
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Context (Other owners)
(Bio) Lord Stanmore
Event Date
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
K. Sutton: Catalogue Card and Accession Register read: "Seven mats, including four oblong with coloured horizontal strips or bands."
Event Date 21/11/2000
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
Mat, made from woven plant fibre, which have been dyed black and varying shades of brown, with a buff background. Geometric patterns within the weave, which include diamonds and stylised birds. Slight fringing, consisting of the ends of the plant fibre knotted along the edge of the mat.
Event Date 23/11/2018
Author: ashleigh griffin

Description (Physical description)
A rectangular plant fibre mat. It woven with stripes of black, brown, yellow and natural coloured fibres; there are two bands of birds within rectangles woven into the pattern, and two bands of cross hatch style patterns. There is a short, knotted fringing along the two short edges.
Event Date 7/7/2023
Author: Emily Shorter