Detail View: Museum and the Online Archive of California: Textile; breast or waist wrapper. Indonesia

Collection: 
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creation Place: 
Bali
Creation Place: 
Indonesia
Title: 
Textile; breast or waist wrapper. Indonesia
Date: 
1941
Materials: 
handwoven
Materials: 
supplementary weft
Materials: 
"songket"
Materials: 
weft ikat
Materials: 
silk
Materials: 
metallic thread
Materials: 
textile
Dimensions: 
265.0 cm by 14.0 cm
Current Location: 
Fowler Museum of Cultural History. University of California, Los Angeles.
Address: 
Los Angeles, California 90095-1549
Object ID: 
UCLA FMCH X61.49
Subject: 
- handwoven supplementary weft "songket" weft ikat silk metallic thread textile
Heading: 
Content/Description
Notes: 
REMARKS COMPILED IN 1987 BY ROY HAMILTON ON BASIS OF EXISTING RECORDS, EXAMINATION OF OBJECT, AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE: Fragment. Identical to X61.50; probably both parts of the same original cloth. "Songket" refers to the Indonesian technique of supplementary weft weaving with metallic thread. In this cloth, gold(?) wrapped thread is used. A narrow cloth like this could still be used as a breast or waist wrapper for ceremonial occasions. Collected during the decade prior to World War II.
Collection Description: 
METS ID: 
ark:/13030/ft0x0n99qt