Title
shouldercloth, waistsash ('tengkuluk; pelung')
20th century
Artists
Unknown Artist
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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Sumatra
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Indonesia
- Date
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, metallic thread, natural dyes, silk; supplementary weft weave
- Dimensions
- 36.0 x 225 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 245.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
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About
This richly brocaded textile is decorated in an abstract design of geometric patterns arranged in bands across the cloth. The designs at each end of the cloth refer to the male and female principles of the cosmos. Fringes formed from silk floss have been added to one end of the textile after weaving.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
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Bibliography
Referenced in 3 publications
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Mattiebelle Gittinger, Splendid symbols: textiles and tradition in Indonesia, Singapore, 1990.
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Mary Hunt Kahlenberg, Textile traditions of Indonesia, Los Angeles, 1977.
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Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990.
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