Cloth with supplementary weft

Published/Created:

Indonesia, South Sumatra: Palembang
ca. 1850-1900 or 1900-1940

Physical Description:

212 x 79 cm

Materials:

silk, gold thread, silk thread

Notes:

This textile is a slendang, or shoulder cloth. Its overall pattern of rosettes, stars and mandalas in gold highlighted with colored silks is bounded on the sides by thick gold supplementary weft borders with running geometric and floral motifs and on the

Variant Titles:

Kain songket

Topics:

Textiles -- Southeast Asia -- Indonesia -- (YVRC)

Accession Number:

2887-023

Genre:

textiles (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Clothing & Accessories
Furnishings & Decorative Arts

Rights:

The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Source Note:

Jessup, Court Arts of Indonesia, 1990

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection, Asian Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Original Repository:

Amsterdam, Netherlands: Tropenmuseum

Local Record Number:

Portfolio Item ID: 205991

OID:

476296

PID:

digcoll:1888992