Unknown Artist
- Title
- skirtcloth
- Place of origin
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Sumatra →
Indonesia
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- silk and gold thread; continuous supplementary weft weave
- Dimensions
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99.5 x 174.3cm [weft x warp]
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Accession number
- 250.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This fine silk reversible skirtcloth has a central field design of inward pointing triangles (bamboo shoot motif) surrounded by curling arabesques. The end sections are woven in a bold pattern of stylised flowers contained within lozenge shaped motifs.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
- 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.
