Sarong

Museum number:
9-21213
Permalink:
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Accession number:
Acc.4716
Description:
Sarong. “Fin of Carp” design, a traditional design. Consists of 2 pieces of cloth sewn together at selvedges and hemmed at the warp ends to form a tube skirt. ~2/3 of length of skirt is one piece commercial black cloth, undecorated,l Lower piece of cloth is dark blue, handwoven, with a band of colored warp stripes at each selvedge. Between bands of warp stripes are a broad band of warp-direction embroidery in red, green, orange, off-white, and yellow, and a narrow band of off-white supplementary weft in a repeating pattern. 108.5cm x 62.5cm.
Donor:
Eric Crystal
Collection place:
Vietnam
Verbatim coll. place:
Vietnam. T’ai. Manh Tien village, Chau Hanh Commune, Quy Chao District, Nghe An Province.
Collector:
Eric Crystal
Collection date:
November 2000
Materials:
Weft [reassign] and Weft [reassign] (sewing: basic assembly. embroidery. weaving: supplementary weft.)
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Embroidery (visual works) and Sarongs
Function:
2.1 Daily Garb
Accession date:
December 12, 2000
Context of use:
Sarong.
Department:
Asia (except western Russia)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Sarong, accession number 9-21213, described as Sarong. “Fin of Carp” design, a traditional design. Consists of 2 pieces of cloth sewn together at selvedges and hemmed at the warp ends to form a tube skirt. ~2/3 of length of skirt is one piece commercial black cloth, undecorated,l Lower piece of cloth is dark blue, handwoven, with a band of colored warp stripes at each selvedge. Between bands of warp stripes are a broad band of warp-direction embroidery in red, green, orange, off-white, and yellow, and a narrow band of off-white supplementary weft in a repeating pattern. 108.5cm x 62.5cm.

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