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  • Textile (Indonesia), ca. 1931

    Textile woven with spaced warps and wefts showing geometric motif in pink, purple, green, yellow, and orange on off-white ground. Spaces make plaid pattern.

  • Sarong (Indonesia), 1900–1950

    Sarong with horizontal repeat of large-scale curving floral spray (“buketan” motif) surrounded by birds and butterflies in black, red, and blue on undyed ground. Narrow black side borders with blue…

  • Ceremonial Cloth (kamben Geringsing) (Indonesia), 1931

    Textile created in double ikat or ‘geringsing technique’ (within Indonesia, only practiced in the village of Tenganan, East Bali). Shows symetrical scaled design of large half medallions with complex decorative…

  • Long Sarong (kain Panjang) (Indonesia), 19th century

    Long cotton sarong (kain panjang) featuring diagonal repeat of medium-sized decorated blade-like motifs with stylized leaves and flowers attached to curving stems alternating with small four-lobed rosettes in dark blue,…

  • Textile (Indonesia), 20th century

    Panel of cotton batik printed in diagonally-arranged pattern of hook-shaped motif known as “parang tuding” in reddish brown and accented with blue dots on tan. Because it is arranged along…

  • Scarf (Indonesia), early 20th century

    Narrow length of batik in brown, dark blue, white, and tan.Tumpal motif (row of isosceles triangles) at ends and large sawat or mironj motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu)…

  • Cap

  • Cap (Spain), late 18th century

    Dark red knitted silk cap with diagonally ribbed body, and crown with a star-shaped area of varied knitting patterns. With very long ornament of silk cords and chenille, forming three…

  • Cap (Spain), late 18th century

    Close fitting skull cap of pink silk net. Embroidered in pink silks. Very long elaborate tassel of strands of chenille in coral pink, made into a group of strands.

  • Cap (Spain), 18th century

    Cap of coral silk with a chenille tassel in the same color. Knit with altnernating bands in a simple goemetric patterns.

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