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  • Textile (Thailand), ca. 1960

    Long hadwoven breath, warm burnt-orange, with thick yellow weft and fine magenta warp, giving changeable effect when crumpled. At one end, an inch-wide band in which fine blue weft replaces…

  • Panel (Thailand), mid-20th century

    Long brilliant cerise panel, handwoven. Fine magenta warp of light weight wild silk and thick, flossy weft of bright orange. silk is from worm of East Thailand which feeds on…

  • Sarong Fragment (Indonesia), 19th century

    Red silk brocaded cloth (kain songket) with all-over geometric pattern of stars and rosettes in gold brocade, with wide panel at one end showing the “tumpal” motif (row of isosceles…

  • Sarong (Thailand), 19th century

    Design showing center area broken up on an all-over diamond-shaped pattern containing stylized floral shapes of seated Buddha. Reclining figures in outlines of damond shapes. Two wide borders, interrupted by…

  • Textile (Thailand), ca. 1963

    Brilliant pink material, double cloth, warp printed in large scale pattern derived from an Indian shawl design, in strong greens, red, and purple. The reverse is a strong magenta, with…

  • Panel (Thailand), 1960–69

    Panel of heavy handwoven silk horizontally striped in red, purple, orange, and orange-brown.

  • Sarong Fragment (Indonesia), 19th century

    Portion of a sarong with pattern of birds and flowers in pale red and two shades of blue on yellow ochre ground in the the body or ‘badan’. Somewhat similar…

  • Sarong Fragment (Indonesia), 1900–1969

    Plain red silk patterned on one side (bottom of sarong when worn) by a border of three geometric floral bands and zigzag pattern in gold.

  • Sarong Fragment (Thailand), 1900–1950

    Remains of a long rectangular panel: field replaced with ivory cotton end borders reduced to three sections. each band at each end is decorated by pendant forms–two with a red…

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