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Tubular Skirt (Sarong)
Indonesia, Java, North Coast, Pekalongan
c. 1900
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; hand-drawn wax resist dyed (batik tulis)
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 213.4 × 107 cm (84 × 42 1/8 in.)
- Culture
- Java
- 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
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Workshops in Pekalongan produced various types of pictorial subjects, including illustrations of Western stories. The story that is referred to in this sarong, now opened to its full size, has yet to be identified but is full of curious elements. In the center, on the white ground, four male figures wearing breeches pose and gesture in a declamatory way, like actors on a stage. They stand before a building and are surrounded by a rich assortment of angels, animals (including a camel) and birds, butterflies, and plants.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
