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songket tube sarong
Textile

sarong

late 20th Century

A tube sarong (hip wrapper) with plant, flower and butterfly motifs with white outlines. It is possibly reversible, with purple on one side and maroon on the reverse. There are stripes of silver meta...

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sarong
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sarong

late 20th Century

This piece is in a tubular shape, usually worn as sarung (or sarong), a garment consisting of a long piece of cloth worn wrapped around the body and tucked at the waist or under the arms. The textile ...

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uncut warp weave
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uncut warp weave

late 20th Century

A multicoloured cotton check weave, predominantly in brown and blue, with supplementary weft motifs including crosses, hooks, uciks and tumpals. This is an uncut warp weave, possibly a sarong / sarong...

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sarung
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sarung

late 20th Century

A woven silk sarung (sarong with check design) in red, purple and white.

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sarung
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sarung

late 20th Century

A sarung (sarong with check design) in brown, with a pink and purple check design. Possibly a sarung samarinda (sarung with check design). It is made of a Tetoron (polyester) and cotton mix.

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songket sarung
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sarung

late 20th Century

A sarung, or sarong, in bright pink and silver metallic thread, with a supplementary weft silver metallic ucik (diamond) pattern.

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sarung pelekat
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sarung pelekat

late 20th Century

A brown sarung pelekat (sarong with a check design) made of a knitted synthetic fabric, with brown tassels. The design is a checkerboard of stripes, smaller checks and a repeated motif that resembles...

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sarung
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sarung

late 20th Century

A woven sarung (sarong with check design) with supplementary weft stripes of tumpal designs and stars in gold metallic thread. It has broad black and thin grey, yellow and white weft stripes with yell...

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batik
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batik

late 20th Century

A batik in brown, yellow and black with a repeated geometric patterns including diamonds, or ceplok motifs, with different designs within, and a panel, or kepala (literally: head) depicts flowers and ...

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batik fabric
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batik fabric

20th Century

This piece of batik cloth was probably originally worn as a sarong. This is suggested by the design of a central panel, "kepala", which is of a different pattern to that decorating the main field. I...

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batik fabric
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batik fabric

20th century

The black and white pattern consists of birds and flowers, with a border pattern of matching foliage motifs. Each end features the traditional triangular "tumpal" design. The use of the "tumpal" pat...

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ikat Donggala
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ikat Donggala

late 20th Century

This pale orange and brown silk sarung, or sarong, with weft ikat flowers, consists of two identical components which have been woven together but then separated when they were removed from the loom. ...

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