Cloth with supplementary weft

Published/Created:

Indonesia, Bali: Klungkung (possibly)
ca. 1850-1900

Physical Description:

94 x 169 cm

Materials:

silk, cotton, gold thread, chemical dyes

Notes:

Museum Bali, E 1b. 3287
Silk cloths with supplementary weft in imported gold-wrapped thread and sometimes also brightly colored cotton thread, as here, traditionally were woven by women of high caste and are still made in villages near the former princely

Variant Titles:

Kain songket

Topics:

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

Accession Number:

2887-026

Genre:

textiles (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Clothing & Accessories
Furnishings & Decorative Arts

Rights:

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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:

Denpasar, Indonesia: Museum Bali

Local Record Number:

Portfolio Item ID: 205994

OID:

476339

PID:

digcoll:1889454