Gero: The design is always woven in the centre of the cloth with red and black colours on white background. Gero is used to tie around the waist and chest on top of ege (mekhela). •
Ege: Ege is a lower garment worn to cover the lower part of the body from waist to ankle level and two or three folds are given at the front waist. Mishing women use different type’s ege such as Mosang ege, Geging ege, Tapum ege etc. Sori Potali It is a kin to Gero, except that the body in this case is woven in check with red, black and white colour also its design is simpler than the gero. Segreg A piece of cloth wrapped around the bust. Mostly used by the old ladies at home instead of Gasor (Chadar). It is plain in colour without any designs, but with contrasting colours on borders and both the ends of the cloths. Ku- Pob It is a dupatta kind of fabric used by grown up girls to wrap around the body beneath the armpits covering the upper part of the body. The colour of the ku-pob is mostly white, green or blue with contrasting borders. Mosang Gasor It is an upper garment worn with the mosang ege. The colour and design of the mosang gasor issimilar to the mosang ege. Ri: Bi Woven with different stripes such as red, black and white. The stripes are distributed throughout the body at regular intervals.
Simple designs of zig-zag lines and diamonds with red coloured threads are woven at both the ends of the cloth. Worn by the young girls on top of Ege on special occasionssuch as Ali-A: ye-Ligang, Po: rag and other important cultural functions. Gaseng Similar to Ri: bi gasor but different in colour combination. It is basically made with red coloured thread giving intensively red look. Narrow stripes of black and white thread are sparsely woven in transverse direction over the body of the cloth. Floral and geometrical designs with red coloured threads are worked at both the ends of the cloth. It has important cultural significance and used by both male and female as shawls on special occasions. Pe, Re It is also a type of Gero. The cloth is designed with narrow stripes of red, black, yellow, green and white colour with black or green border. Stripes of red colour predominate to give out a reddish appearance of the cloth. Seleng Gasor The length is same as other gasor. It is woven out of light cotton yarn worn occasionally instead of a ri: bi or a gaseng. Po: Tub Use to cover the head during working time such as cooking, cleaning house etc. The length of the cloth is around three feet in length and one and half feet in width.
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