Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; salendang; shoulder cloth. Indonesia
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Collection:
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Museum and the Online Archive of California
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Creation Place:
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Indonesia
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Creation Place:
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Limo Puluh Koto
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Creation Place:
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Minangkabau
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Creation Place:
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Sijunjung
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Creation Place:
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Sumatra
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Title:
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Textile; salendang; shoulder cloth. Indonesia
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Materials:
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handspun cotton
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Materials:
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silk thread
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Materials:
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ramin
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Materials:
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gold metallic thread hand woven
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Materials:
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frame loom
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Materials:
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plain weave
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Materials:
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weft ikat
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Materials:
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supplementary weft
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Dimensions:
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warp 236.9 cm weft 79.7 cm fringe 4.0 cm
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Current Location:
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Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
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Address:
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Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
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Object ID:
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UCLA FMCH X93.25.84
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Subject:
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- cornflowers bamboo shoots parading caterpillars
- handspun cotton silk thread ramin gold metallic thread hand woven
frame loom plain weave weft ikat supplementary weft
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Heading:
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Content/Description
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Notes:
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Two panel textile. Plain weave with weft ikat bands and continuous supplementary metallic weft. warp: Handspun cotton, Z twist, single ply, 68 threads per inch, blue. Silk, Z twist, single and paired, 128 threads per inch, red, yellow, white. Ramin, Z twist, single ply, natural. weft: Handspun cotton, Z twist, single ply, 46 threads per inch, blue. Silk, Z twist, single ply, 46 threads per inch, ikat - red, light and dark blue, white. Metallic gold wrapped thread, S wrapped on yellow silk(?) core, 2 rows on one half of one end only. Central section blue cotton warps and wefts with ramin thin plaid. 8 cm red selvedge band separated from blue center by 1 cm band of yellow, red, white, and blue stripes. Bordering the blue section at the top and bottom are 3 cm bands of continuous supplementary metallic with cornflower and bamboo shoot motifs, and what approximates the parading caterpillar motif. Next is a 23.5 cm (or 25.0 cm) band of weft ikat diamond patterns similar to Yemeni ikats. Next a 1.5 cm band of metallic parading caterpillars, 9 cm plain blue with ramin plaid, 3 cm of metallic cornflowers, bamboo shoots, and parading caterpillars. Finally a plain blue band with only ramin wefts. Only in this band do the ramin wefts pass selvedge to selvedge. Elsewhere they turn around at the 8 cm red selvedge band. Fringe plied and knotted.
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Collection Description:
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METS ID:
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ark:/13030/ft767nb455
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