skirt;
sarong
- Museum number
- As1992,05.90
- Description
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A woman's tube skirt, a sarong. Made of two equal sized pieces of warp faced tabby cotton cloth with bands (woven as stripes), two of which are ikat dyed. Hand sewn together along one selvedge and side seam. Bulk of skirt [84 cms] has narrow bands worked in tones of yellow, green, blue and black. (Colours much faded as compared with inside of skirt.) A narrow ikat band (2.5 cms) with elongated patterning, diamond-shaped in outline, worked in pale orange on a mid-brown 'ground', woven towards the edges of the striped panel. A solid blue (indigo dyed?) panel (13 cms and 14 cms deep) separates the middle bands from those at top and bottom of skirt.
- Production date
- 20thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 122 centimetres
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Width: 53 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Asia
- Registration number
- As1992,05.90