Sazigyo, Burmese Manuscript Binding Tapes: Woven Miniatures of Buddhist Art Ethnology Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang

Cecilia Milwertz & Qi Wang

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London: Macmillan Press LTD1999

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Sazigyo, Burmese Manuscript Binding Tapes: Woven Miniatures of Buddhist Art Ethnology Cecilia Milwertz & Qi WangNotes, glossary, appendixes, bibliog., index, Cloth Sazigyo are Burmese tablet woven bands that were used to bind palm leaf manuscripts. In these wonderful weaves, brightly colored lines of elegant script are interspersed with fascinating, miniature pictures of animals and other objects. The woven bands were commissioned by Buddhist donors gifting a scriptural manuscript to a monastery to make spiritual merit in order to attain a better rebirth and