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Shoulder Cloth (Selendang)
Late 19th century
- Medium
- Cotton, plain weave; hand-drawn wax resist dyed (batik tulis)
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- 256.6 × 52 cm (101 × 20 1/2 in.)
- Culture
- Java
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Textiles
- Credit line
- Gift of Guy H. Mitchell
- 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
A shoulder cloth is a long, narrow cloth worn by women over the shoulder as a shawl or to carry a baby or market goods. This fine example was produced within the palace compound of a central Javanese court. Classic colors have been employed—blue, white or cream, and the soga reddish brown—and the major motifs of birds and paired Garuda wings have been symmetrically arranged on the field in an almost heraldic way.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
