About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Textiles
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Title
- Shoulder or Skirt Cloth (kain bidak)
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Place
- Sumatra (Object made in)
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Date
- Made 1875–1925
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Medium
- Two panels joined: bands of cotton, silk, gold-and silver- leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; bands of cotton, silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts; bands of cotton and silk, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave; bands of cotton and silk, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and bands of cotton, silk, gold- leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, slit tapestry weave
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Dimensions
- 232.5 × 106.8 cm (91 1/2 × 42 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
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Reference Number
- 2002.918