Hat of horizontally woven bamboo, wood finial

Hat, domed form of woven thin vertical fibers, wooden knob finial. Woven hat of domed form constructed of very fine horizontally placed strips of bamboo held in place by vertically sewn thread all below a small knobbed wood finial, the rim of cross-hatched woven bamboo strips, the interior with visible mengkuang leaf core exposed under colored thread and a loosely woven head support. Woven hat of domed form constructed of very fine horizontally placed strips of bamboo held in place by vertically sewn thread all below a small knobbed wood finial, the rim of cross-hatched woven bamboo strips, the interior with visible mengkuang leaf core exposed under colored thread and a loosely woven head support.

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