Traditional and contemporary
“Based,” the kids might say.
Contemporary in Japan
Notice that the Prime Minister’s wife, Akie Abe, is wearing a Burmese outfit including a longyi with tradtional Burmese weaving Acheik wavy patterning which can only be made by hand, usually in silk.
Kachin
1913: “the Kachin woman is second to none in Burma when is comes to artistic weaving and embroidery.” (Rev. O. Hanson, author of The Kachins: Their Customs and Traditions 1913: 48)
