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Aubergine Hand Woven Silk Lowan (c. 1880 Palambang Sumatra Indonesia)

Reference no. 78612

Medium

Dyed hand woven silk

Dimensions

90.50cm wide    198.00cm high    (35.63 inches wide  77.95 inches high)

Literature

Dyers Art by Larson Buhler Solyom

Description / Expertise

This ceremonial cloth would have been presented to the wife at the marriage ceremony and was made using the tritik process of resist dying on native hand woven silk.

Mounted within a UV protective frame