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Shoulder Cloth (Selendang) with Batik Design

2000-2007

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Unknown

Shoulder Cloth (Selendang) with Batik Design

Unknown

Shoulder Cloth (Selendang) with Batik Design

2000-2007

Physical Qualities Cotton, 20 x 97 in. (50.8 x 246.4 cm.)
Credit Line Gift of Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore
Object Number 2008.39
Long narrow rectangular cloth, probably a shoulder cloth (Selendang) with overall pattern of batiked designs in tan, dark blue, grey, and rust, and a narrow, intricately detailed border. The pattern is of the semen class, which depicts a sacred mountain theme with birds, many plants and small shrine huts. The cloth appears to have been worked by hand, the maker using a tjanting to apply wax to both sides as is common to batik.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore, by gift from aunt; Agnes Mott Peter, by purchase, 1930s
Batik Patterns. The Pepin Press.

E-mail correspondence with Dr. Mattiebelle Gittinger, Curator, Southeast Asia Textiles, Textile Museum, DC.

Achjadi, Judi, ed. Batik, Spirit of Indonesia. Yayasan Batik Indonesia, 1999.

Maxwell, Robyn. Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation. Oxford University Press, Australia, 1990.

Javanese and Sumatran Batiks from Courts and Palaces, Rudof G. Smend Collection. Galerie Smend, Koln, 2000.

Vollmer, John E. , E.J. Keall and E. Nagai-Berthong. Silk Roads, China Ships. Royal Ontario, Toronto, 1983.

Keller, Ila. Batik: The Art and Craft.

Inscribed: None

Maker

Unknown

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

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