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

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Batu Sangkar
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Creation Place: 
Minangkabau
Creation Place: 
Sumatra
Title: 
Textile; salendang; shawl, sash, or shoulder cloth. Indonesia
Materials: 
handspun cotton
Materials: 
silk thread
Materials: 
Gilt paper wrapped thread
Materials: 
gold braid
Materials: 
hand woven
Materials: 
frame loom(?)
Materials: 
continuous supplementary weft
Materials: 
discontinuous supplementary weft
Dimensions: 
warp 219.8 cm weft
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X93.25.13
Subject: 
- Bugi chain - handspun cotton silk thread Gilt paper wrapped thread gold braid hand woven frame loom(?) continuous supplementary weft discontinuous supplementary weft
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Content/Description
Notes: 
Single panel, red, blue and beige plaid shoulder cloth with continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft patterning. warp: Handspun cotton, Z twist, single ply, 66 threads per inch, colors in red and indigo. Silk, Z twist, single ply, 68 threads per inch, tan. weft: handspun cotton, Z twist, single ply, 58 threads per inch, colors in red and indigo. Silk, Z twist, single ply,70 threads per inch, ivory. SELVEDGE: paired silk warps, Z twist, tan. SECONDARY MATERIALS: Gilt on paper wrapped thread, Z twist, cotton core (2 ply, Z twist, pink). Braid, gold wrapped thread (Z twist, yellow silk core). Body patterned with rows of 6-8 supplementary gold diamond shapes of approximately 1.5 cm width, and spaced from 11 1/2 to 17 1/2 cm apart. The warp border patterns on the two ends consists of three rows of differing motifs with the two intervening row's containing the bugi's chain surrounding triangles at the center band and floral(?) motifs at the outer bands. Motifs in the three patterned bands appear to vary on the warp borders, but this "difference" is due to placement of the triangles in the bugi's chain bands. When the triangles are centered over the motifs in the center band, the motifs appear to be large and complex. On the opposite warp border such centering does not occur, and the patterning seems to be more distinctly five bands. Selvedges are beige or ivory silk warps, 2 ply and paired. Braid of gold wrapped thread (metallic) pillow lace(?) crochet(?) on warp ends and up the selvedge approximately 12 cm. Hand hemmed at warp borders. 2 and 3 Lidi, or 2 and 3 warps per pattern stick.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/ft809nb523