Collection
Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia
- Title
- Waistcloth; shouldercloth ('kain limar')
- Place of origin
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Palembang →
Sumatra →
Indonesia
- Cultural origin
- Malay people
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- silk, natural dyes; weft 'ikat'
- Dimensions
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106.0 x 244.8cm
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Accession number
- 241.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This beautifully patterned silk weft ikat is intricately dyed in red, blue, yellow and green to create a pattern of eight-petalled lotuses surrounded by curling foliage and smaller flower motifs. The ends of this cloth are bordered by fluid triangular designs, described as a bamboo shoot motif, bordered by smaller eight-petalled flowers derived from the exotic mangosteen fruit. The central field design of this cloth reflects the influence of Indian 'patola' textile patterns where the eight-petalled flower motif is a metaphor for the cosmos.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
- Bibliography (3)
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Mattiebelle Gittinger, Splendid symbols: textiles and tradition in Indonesia, Singapore, 1990.
Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, Textile traditions of Indonesia, Los Angeles, 1977.
Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation 1990, Canberra, 1990.
