Unknown Artist
- Title
- royal sarong
- Place of origin
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Bali →
Indonesia
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- silk, natural dyes, metallic thread; supplementary weft weave
- Dimensions
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167.0 x 106.3cm (irreg.)
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Accession number
- 267.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This royal sarong is a sumptuous textile woven in a checked design which gained popularity with the influence of Islam. It would have been woven in two long, narrow sections, probably on a body tension loom, which was later stitched together. The design utilises the familiar motif of eight-petal lotus and eight-pointed star, a reference to the directions of space and notions of the cosmos influenced by ideas coming from India.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
- Bibliography (1)
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Robyn Maxwell (Australia) (Author), Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990.
