ຜ້າຊິ້ນພວນ (Pha Sin Phuan)
Phuan silk weaving is the textile tradition of the Phuan people — a small Tai sub-group historically centered in Xieng Khouang Province, Laos, whose population was dramatically reduced by the Secret War (1964–1973) and subsequent displacement. The Phuan weaving tradition produces a distinctive diagonal-striped sin (skirt) using a warp-faced supplementary technique that creates the characteristic Phuan stripe pattern — narrow alternating bands of color in the warp combined with supplementary weft (jok) diamond pattern inserts at the skirt hem and waistband. The most endangered element of Phuan weaving is the specific warp stripe calculation — the number and width of color stripes in the warp is a signature of specific Phuan sub-community identity, and the calculation is held in the elder weavers' memory as a color sequence formula ('seven red, three black, five green...') transmitted orally.
Risk level: Critically Endangered · Not separately inscribed
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