Textile

Museum number:
18-1756
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4364
Description:
batik textile; commercial, traditional style batik textile; ecru ground printed in blue and brown. appears to have used wax resist for initial dyeing then overprinted with navy blue; overall pattern of birds, wings, shield-like devices are connected by vegetal motifs. hemmed on both ends.
Donor:
Robert J. Kimball
Collection place:
Indonesia
Verbatim coll. place:
SE Asia, Indonesia
Culture or time period:
Indonesian
Collector:
Robert J. Kimball
Materials:
Cotton (textile)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Textile samples
Function:
8.3 For Manufacturing
Accession date:
1988
Context of use:
yardage
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Dimensions:
length 229 centimeters and width 102 centimeters
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Textile, accession number 18-1756, described as batik textile; commercial, traditional style batik textile; ecru ground printed in blue and brown. appears to have used wax resist for initial dyeing then overprinted with navy blue; overall pattern of birds, wings, shield-like devices are connected by vegetal motifs. hemmed on both ends.

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