Unknown Artist
- Title
- brocade tube skirt ('tembe' or 'kere')
- Place of origin
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Sumbawa →
Indonesia
- Cultural origin
- Semawa people
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- cotton, dyes, metallic thread; supplementary weft weave
- Dimensions
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125.8 x 89.0cm [weft x warp]
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Bequest of Alex Biancardi 2000
- Accession number
- 272.2000
- Copyright
- © Copyright reserved
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This 'tembe' or 'kere' is woven in two sections, which are joined together and seamed to form a tube. The section of the sarong that is worn at the front is woven in a banded pattern in shades of red and decorated in an elaborate design with stylised motifs of birds, deer, ships, figures and trees in a supplementary weft metallic weave. The back of the garment is less elaborate with a green plaid pattern decorated with a design of eight-petalled flowers in metallic thread. As this textile is in very good condition and of high quality, it is probable that it once belonged to a sultan or a member of the aristocracy.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, August 2000- Bibliography (2)
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Robyn Maxwell (Australia) (Author), Textiles of Southeast Asia : tradition, trade and transformation, Canberra, 1990.
Sylvia Fraser-Lu (Author), Handwoven textiles of South-East Asia, Singapore, 1988.
