Mediaeval Sinhalese Art c27.13

c27.13

Very few pillow cases (koṭṭa ura) have remained to us, but those that have are generally of Pillow cases one type—a centre piece of blue cloth, embroidered with a design, and a border three or four inches wide, of a patchwork of red, white, and blue squares of cotton cloth. Probably an earlier type was one with an embroidered border instead of the patchwork, just as the later type is the kind completely made of patchwork; but I have never seen one. But as we find woven pillow cases of the same shape and size with patterns all over, it is very probable that the better examples used to be embroidered all over.