Unknown Artist
- Title
- Woman’s skirt cloth
- Place of origin
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Cambodia
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Textile
- Materials used
- silk with continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft weaving
- Dimensions
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94.3 x 197.3cm (irreg.)
- Credit
- Gift of John Yu, in memory of George Soutter 2012
- Accession number
- 85.2012
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
This piece of silk cloth would have been used as a skirt cloth by a woman. It is decorated with stripes, diamond and floral motifs, and candlestick-like shapes that are protective diagrams. The latter decoration is a central Thai influence. Unusually, there is no border section along the sides of the textile. The cloth is composed of two pieces of fabric, indicating that it was woven on a backstrap loom and that it may be a provincial textile.
Asian Art Department, AGNSW, February 2012.
