Antique Batik Skirt Cloth, Sumatra

Kain panjang pagi-sore skirt cloth of cotton tabby with patterning in hand drawn (tulis) wax resist (batik). Design of floral sprays against a finely drawn slanted line background. Medium: cotton tabb

Batik and applied gold-painting, "Kain Prada Selendang", on a cotton fabric. A large rectangular center field with solid blue coloring with yellow zigzag border. Side and end sections of solid red. A

Skirt cloth with hand stamped wax resist patterning in a regular pattern repeat of quatrefoil, square, and circular designs in resist white on an indigo ground. The border is a white stripe with some

Antique Woman's ceremonial skirt cloth, "tapis", couched gold and silver-wrapped thread, mica, natural dyes on cotton ground, Lampung, Sumatra. Tapis are heavily ornamented ceremonial sarongs made and

Antique Woman's ceremonial skirt cloth, "tapis kaca", gold-wrapped thread couched on cotton ground, mica, silk thread, Lampung, Sumatra. Tapis are heavily ornamented ceremonial sarongs made and worn b

Antique Woman's ceremonial skirt cloth, "tapis"; gold-wrapped thread couched on cotton ground, Abung people, Lampung, Sumatra. Tapis are heavily ornamented ceremonial sarongs made and worn by women in

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, Late 19th C. Sarong, skirt cloth of commercial tabby woven cotton with decoration in hand drawn (tulis) wax resist (batik). The design is a repeat of large garuda w

Kain Prada Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, Early 20th C. Sarong of handdrawn (tulis) wax resist (batik) on cotton tabby cloth, worked in a pattern of interlocking quatrefoil rosette and diamond fo

Kain Panjang, skirt cloth. This cloth is half of a double sarong called a dodot. Dodot were worn by the bride and groom in weddings in Java, and displayed in Sumatra, with other textiles, at the sites

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, C. 1900-1925. Skirt cloth of commercial tabby woven cotton with decoration in hand drawn (tulis) wax resist (batik). The design is a grid of medallions in a formati

Kain panjang of commercial cotton tabby, with patterning in handdrawn (tulis) wax resist (batik). The design is the ceplok tambal motif. The batik includes many central Javanese motifs; ceplok, tambal

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, C. 1920-30. Skirt cloth of handdrawn (tulis) batik (wax resist) on a commercial cotton fabric. A diamond grid enclosing varied designs including 'lar', temple form,

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth "Kain Panjang", Indonesia, Mid 20th C. Kain panjang skirt cloth worked in hand drawn (tulis) batik on commercial tabby woven cotton cloth in a pattern defined by leaf and rice

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, C. 1900-1925. Skirt cloth of commercial tabby woven cotton with decoration in hand drawn (tulis) wax resist (batik). The design is based on a patola basket-weave pa

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth "Kain Panjang", Indonesia, Mid 20th C. Kain panjang skirt cloth of hand drawn (tulis) batik on commercial tabby woven cotton cloth in a pattern of large lar (garuda wings) and

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth "Kain Panjang", Indonesia, Mid 20th C. Kain panjan, skirt cloth worked in hand drawn (tulis) batik on commercial tabby woven cotton cloth. Design of alas alasan type, showing p

Tulis Batik Skirt Cloth "Kain Panjang", Indonesia, Mid 20th C. Kain panjang, skirt cloth worked in hand drawn (tulis) batik on commercial tabby woven cotton cloth. The stamp along one selvage reads "P

2 Antique Tampan/Ceremonial Cloths, Sumatra, Indonesia. Supplementary weft on handspun cotton; natural dyes. Very good condition; larger one an ancestral "ship" cloth from Lampung region of south Suma

some old patch repairs, see photo's

Antique Tulis Batik Head Cloth "Kain Kapala", Indonesia. Kain kapala head cloth of handdrawn (tulis) wax resist (batik) on cotton cloth. The blue background field design is of loose-petalled flowers o

Tulis Batik "Kain Panjang" Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, C. 1900. Kain panjang skirt cloth of commercial cotton tabby with patterning in hand drawn (tulis) wax resist (batik) with dense coloration and India

Tulis Batik "Kain Panjang" Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, Mid 20th C. Kain panjang skirt cloth of commercial tabby woven cotton with decoration in hand drawn (tulis) wax resist (batik). The design is called

Tulis Batik Kain Panjang Skirt Cloth, Indonesia, Early 20th C. Kain panjang skirt cloth with wax resist decoration in handdrawn (tulis) batik on commercial cotton. The "ceplok" design is a variation o

Shoulder cloth of handdrawn (tulis) wax resist (batik) on cotton tabby cloth, worked in a pattern of interlocking quatrefoil diamond forms in white on a blue ground. Fringe or striped end borders. Med