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Skirt Cloth (kain panjang) with Traditional Semen Design with Garuda Wings
1900-1999
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Unknown
Skirt Cloth (kain panjang) with Traditional Semen Design with Garuda Wings
1900-1999
Physical Qualities
Cotton with batiked indigo, brown and white design, 41 x 92 in. (104.1 x 233.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore
Object Number
2008.38
Long rectangular skirt cloth or "kain panjang" with overall traditional batiked pattern in indigo blue, rust brown, and white on plain-woven cotton. This appears to be a design from central Java as there are no end panels and no borders. The pattern is of the semen class, which depicts a sacred mountain theme with birds, many plants and small shrine huts. The semen design is associated with fertility. This example also has Garuda wings, representing an eagle. The batik pattern was printed with a block or "tjap." All sides have a narrow unprinted area around outer edges. The back and front are alike (common to batiks).
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2008; Martha Custis Peter, Baltimore, by gift from aunt; Agnes Mott Peter, by purchase, 1930s
Achjadi, Judi, ed. Batik, Spirit of Indonesia. Yayasan Batik Indonesia, 1999.
Vollmer, John; E.J. Keall and E. Nagai-Berthong. Silk Roads--China Ships. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1983.
A Festival of Fibers: Masterworks of Textile Art from the Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. A Fiftieth Anniiversary Exhibition, October 14 through November 20, 1977.
Arensberg, Susan. Javanese Batiks. Boston Museum of Fine Arts.,
Maxwell, Robyn. Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation.
Keller, Ila. Batik: The Art and Craft.
Gilfoy, Peggy Stoltz. Fabrics in Celebration from the Collection. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983.
E-mail info from Dr. Mattiebelle Gittinger, Curator, Southeast Asian Textiles, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Textile Traditions of Indonesia. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Javanese and Sumatran Batiks From Courts and Palaces, Rudolf G. Smend Collection. Galerie Smend, Koln, 2000.
Vollmer, John; E.J. Keall and E. Nagai-Berthong. Silk Roads--China Ships. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, 1983.
A Festival of Fibers: Masterworks of Textile Art from the Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. A Fiftieth Anniiversary Exhibition, October 14 through November 20, 1977.
Arensberg, Susan. Javanese Batiks. Boston Museum of Fine Arts.,
Maxwell, Robyn. Textiles of Southeast Asia: Tradition, Trade and Transformation.
Keller, Ila. Batik: The Art and Craft.
Gilfoy, Peggy Stoltz. Fabrics in Celebration from the Collection. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1983.
E-mail info from Dr. Mattiebelle Gittinger, Curator, Southeast Asian Textiles, Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.
Kahlenberg, Mary Hunt. Textile Traditions of Indonesia. Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Javanese and Sumatran Batiks From Courts and Palaces, Rudolf G. Smend Collection. Galerie Smend, Koln, 2000.
Inscribed: Selvedge marked "NJODDJIEM JAN A[MEASAWA?]"
Maker
Unknown
2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00
