designThe framed animal
| Where it goes | thighs, legs |
|---|
What it is
A tiger, a cat, a monkey, an elephant, a nat or a bilu, each sitting inside an oval frame of letters.
The long version
Shway Yoe: each representation is surrounded by a roughly oval tracery of letters, which forms a curious and remarkably effective frame, so each animal has a setting of its own — and vacant spaces are filled the same way, the top and bottom finished with a scalloped line.
Sometimes the letters are said to carry a cabalistic meaning; ordinarily, he says, no more is claimed for them than beauty. The serious charms go elsewhere on the body, usually in vermilion.
Inference — the frame is what makes the leg read as cloth. A repeating field of bounded units is a textile pattern; a scene is a picture. These traditions chose the textile.
Connected to
- Htoe kwin The tradition it belongs to.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there