Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; kain; wrap-around skirt. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
Indramayu?
Creation Place: 
Java
Title: 
Textile; kain; wrap-around skirt. Indonesia
Date: 
1941
Materials: 
batik tulis
Materials: 
dyed
Materials: 
machine woven
Materials: 
cotton
Materials: 
textile
Dimensions: 
222.0 cm by 101.0 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X61.18
Subject: 
- floral phytomorphic birds - batik tulis dyed machine woven cotton textile
Heading: 
Content/Description
Notes: 
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON THE BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: Batik tulis or hand-drawn batik. A "kain" is a length of cloth worn in Indonesia as a wrap-around skirt; once worn in Java by both sexes, in more recent times, primarily a woman's garment. Indigo dyed. Collected during the decade prior to World War II. X61.16 through X61.19 are similar in style, motif and color.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/ft5p3006r8