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: 
Sijunjung
Creation Place: 
Sumatra
Title: 
Textile; salendang; shoulder cloth. Indonesia
Materials: 
handspun cotton
Materials: 
silk thread
Materials: 
ramin
Materials: 
gold metallic thread hand woven
Materials: 
frame loom
Materials: 
plain weave
Materials: 
weft ikat
Materials: 
supplementary weft
Dimensions: 
warp 236.9 cm weft 79.7 cm fringe 4.0 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X93.25.84
Subject: 
- 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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Content/Description
Notes: 
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.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
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