Waist Wrapper (Sarung), ILE2006.4.352

Title Waist Wrapper (Sarung)
Culture Lasem
Geography Java, Indonesia
Date ca. 1880
Medium Cotton; balanced plain weave and hand-drawn batik
Dimensions 73 1/4 × 41 5/16 in. (186 × 105 cm)
Credit Line Robert J. Holmgren and Anita E. Spertus Collection, Promised gift of Thomas Jaffe, B.A. 1971
Inv. No. ILE2006.4.352
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The head (kepala) of this textile has blue and light brown triangles filled with plants and birds, on a deep purple ground. The wide fields (badan) have red and brown flowers, tendrils, and birds on a light brown ground. —RB