Aristocratic Waist Cloth (saput songket)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Textiles

Title

Aristocratic Waist Cloth (saput songket)

Place

Bali (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1915–1935

Medium

Two panels joined: silk and gold and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; edged along selvages with silk and gold-and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps

Dimensions

130 × 133 cm (51 1/8 × 52 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection

Reference Number

2002.992

Extended information about this artwork

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