Unknown Artist
- Title
- Tatibin (ceremonial cloth) with images of ships
- Place of origin
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Kota Agung →
Lampung →
Sumatra →
Indonesia
- Year
- early 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, natural dyes, silver-wrapped thread, metallic strips, and continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft decoration on a plain weave foundation
- Dimensions
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40.0 x 126.0cm [weft x warp]
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Accession number
- 248.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This tatibin is a typical product of the Kota Agung region because it makes use of three main, bold colours and has several bands of decoration around the central panel. In particular, the left and right edges have a row of blue scrolls that are only found on cloths from the southern area of Lampung. The image in the central panel is a ship carrying other boats with fish in the water below. The boldness of the design results from the contrasting supplementary weft threads. The dark blue boat stands out against the red, orange, and cream surrounding imagery. The strips of metal and the silver-wrapped threads add further luminosity. The metal pieces and silver-wrapped threads are supplementary threads woven into the cloth. Usually, they are couched onto the surface of the fabric. The simplicity of the design indicates that it was made in the early 1900s.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, April 2011.
- Bibliography (3)
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Robyn Maxwell (Australia) (Author), Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990.
Mattiebelle Gittinger (United States of America) (Author), Splendid symbols: textiles and tradition in Indonesia, Singapore, 1990.
Mary Hunt Kahlenberg (United States of America) (Author), Textile traditions of Indonesia, Los Angeles, 1977.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Symbols and Ceremonies: Indonesian Textile Traditions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 13 Apr 2006–28 May 2006.
