Woman's wrapper c. 20th century

This Woman's wrapper was created by Kabui Naga, it sits as a block of woven color, a rectangle hanging on the wall. The red frames a center of vertical stripes in black and white. I wonder what it was like for them to weave this? Did they have an image in mind, or did it just come about intuitively through repetition? I love to see this textile because it reminds me that the entire history of painting is in constant conversation. The Kabui Naga are playing with geometry, and thinking about how colors operate next to each other. It reminds me a bit of Agnes Martin's grids, only Martin was using paint instead of thread. Textiles have an ability to exist as both art and as something functional; the warp and weft feel so grounded in material reality, and yet this feels highly symbolic. The tension between the utilitarian and the beautiful, that's what really makes this sing.