This breast cloth was worn by Khumi Chin women. It was worn around the neck so that both ends drape the breasts. The cloth has supplementary weft woven patterns (known as sakhaimaw). The edges and centre-line of the cloth are fringed with tassels of cylindrical glass beads lined with silver and ceramic or glass beads.The ends of the cloth are decorated with woven with lozenge patterns and minor bands of green and pink cotton.The Khumi are one of many Chin communities living in the Chin State of Myanmar bordering the Chittagong Hills of Bangladesh. Their rich textile tradition comprises mainly cloth woven on back-tension looms with colourful supplementary weft patterning - a technique that requires additional threads to be woven across the horizontal (weft) plane of the loom. The woven cloths worn by Khumi Chin are typically short skirts, breast cloths, headbands, loincloths, shoulder cloths, blankets and other ceremonial textiles.
