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Details
- Place where the work was made
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Lombok
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Indonesia
- Date
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, natural dyes; supplementary weft weave
- Dimensions
- 92.0 x 143.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 271.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
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About
This sarong is decorated with the traditional design known as 'subhanale', which consists of stylised floral and vegetal motifs enclosed in a hexagonal or zig-zag grid pattern.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Symbols and Ceremonies: Indonesian Textile Traditions, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 13 Apr 2006–28 May 2006
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Handwoven textiles of South-East Asia, Singapore, 1988, 193.
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Robyn Maxwell, Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990.
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