In Timor, women wear long, tubular sarongs tucked in above the breast. A strong indicator of a woman’s status in the social hierarchy is her garment’s quality of weaving and complexity of design. Constructed of four joined panels, this sarong features warp ikat designs that include crocodile and lizard motifs in bands of red or blue. Stripes that incorporate brighter silk threads provide additional accents and often appear in the textiles of the wealthy rulers of Central Timor, whose trade in sandalwood facilitated their acquisition of expensive silk thread from China.