Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; salendang; shoulder cloth. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
Limo Puluh Koto
Creation Place: 
Minangkabau
Creation Place: 
Sumatra
Title: 
Textile; salendang; shoulder cloth. Indonesia
Materials: 
cotton thread
Materials: 
silk thread
Materials: 
ramin
Materials: 
gold metallic thread hand woven
Materials: 
frame loom
Materials: 
plain weave
Materials: 
continuous supplementary weft
Dimensions: 
warp 241.6 cm weft 74.7 cm fringe 9.0 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X93.25.70
Subject: 
- cotton thread silk thread ramin gold metallic thread hand woven frame loom plain weave continuous supplementary weft
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Content/Description
Notes: 
Warp: cotton thread, Z twist, single ply, 52-60 threads per inch, colors in red, black and beige. Weft: cotton thread, Z twist, single ply, 53 threads per inch, red. Ramin. Weft stripes in cotton thread, Z twist, doubled (white, 52 threads per inch), tripled (light blue, 72 threads per inch); and metallic thread (gold?, copper?), S wrapped, single ply. Selvedge: warp threads paired. In cotton (Z twist) and silk (S twist), 68 threads per inch, in red. Secondary materials: gold wrapped thread, doubled, S wrapped, gold(?) copper(?) Two panel central plaid of red and black with white ramin accent lines in warps and weft. 8 cm selvedge band of red cotton and wool. 5 bands of gold wrapped weft, and supplementary weft, 2 and 4 cm wide. Four of the bands are separated by 3 cm bands of red silk supplementary weft. Doubled metallic supplementary: 1,2 or 3 per lidi, or 1,2 or 3 warps per pattern sick. Four to six warps are plied and knotted for the 9 cm fringe. There are two rows at each end of an "x" motif in continuous supplementary weft doubled metallic. Four warp bands of 1 cm are beige silk and serve to brighten the red and black plaid.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/ft6199p00q