AMRAPAALI January 2015 | Page 11

WORDS Amrapaali / January 2015 11 Lungakhu - Tarao Skirt "From early times, the tribal folk used natural colorants that were extracted from the leaves and plants found in the locality to make vegetable dye. Black is the dominant colour in their textiles but red and yellow colours are not ignored. Source: e-pao.net "Mutua Bahadur's book on "Tribal hand woven fabrics of Manipur" HOME