Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (tapis)
Paminggir (Indonesia, Sumatra, Lampung)
19th century
- Medium
- Six loom widths: four loom widths of: silk, cotton and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning wefts; embroidered with silk, cotton and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip wrapped…
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 125.7 × 65.4 cm (49 1/2 × 25 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- Sumatra
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
