Woman's Ceremonial Cloth (Tapis)

Paminggir (Indonesia, Sumatra, Lampung)

19th century

Medium
Five panels joined: three panels of stripes of cotton and silk, plain weave with supplementary brocading wefts and stripes of cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat) plain weave with paired warps: and two panels of stripes of cotton plain…
Classification
Costume and Accessories
Dimensions
132.1 × 117.5 cm (52 × 46 1/4 in.)
Culture
Indonesia
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

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