Skirt Cloth (Indonesia), 1931

Skirt cloth made of two lengths seamed down long sides of bright green silk cloth with scaled design in gold thread. Design shows long stemmed stylized floral forms extending into center of skirt at right angles from long side borders (8cm) which are filled with various diamond repeats with fret guard strips. Narrow borders at ends of skirt show stylized flower and leaf forms with geometric guard strips. Wide white cloth selvedge on border side of each length and narrow green cloth selvedge on opposite side of each length.