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ikat rug
late 20th Century
An ikat rug with a Christian theme, depicting eight figures and crosses in a zigzag border, in red, natural (undyed) and indigo. There are fringes on both ends. It is probable that this piece comes fr...
weaving notes
Pesel, Louisa F (1947)
early 20th-mid 20th Century
19 A5 hole punched notes, plus one note on an envelope back (7 Oct 1933), and four folded tables of weave types by geography: North American, Africa, Indonesia, East Asia.
batik Tuban
c.1993
A brown hand drawn batik using hand spun coarse cotton. The wax covering the background is deliberately cracked before dyeing so allowing irregular lines of colour to appear on the cloth. The dyes ...
ulos
late 20th Century
A small red 'ulos' (or possibly 'ulos rara' - rara meaning red), with a supplementary weft including metallic thread and some beads. The central area has dot motifs and each end has larger geometric m...
shawl
c. 1986
This shawl was purchased in an Afghan refugee camp (possibly Katcha Gari) situated on the outskirts of Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, where it was also manufactured. It is w...
shawl
c. 1986
This shawl was purchased in an Afghan refugee camp (possibly Katcha Gari) situated on the outskirts of Peshawar in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, where it was also manufactured. It is ...
ikat ulos
late 20th Century
A cotton ulos (shawl), intended to be worn around the shoulders. It is mainly black with thin yellow and pink stripes and white ikat diamond motifs, with fringing on the weft edges.
embroidered fragment
late 19th-early 20th Century
This item is an embroidered fragment of cotton decorated with a floral pattern in blue and white floss silk in satin and stem stitch, outlined in silver. It is accompanied by an original label writte...
warp ikat blanket
c. 1982
A warp ikat blanket (or pori lonjong) from Komba Village, Rongkong (a remote village in the mountains between Toraja and Central Sulawesi). It is red, blue, green, brown, and white, and there are vari...
ulos
late 20th Century
A red and black striped weave with multi-coloured stripes of supplementary weft including the tumpal/diamond design, crosses and triangles. The brightly coloured wool stripes are possibly synthetic wo...
man's head wrapper
late 20th Century
A man's head wrapper made up of eight narrow strips hand sewn together and heavily dyed in indigo. This item was purchased from the dyer in a village outside Kano. These male head wrappers are made b...
warp ikat ulos
c. 1995
A warp ikat 'ulos' made by the Batak people in the Lake Toba region of North Sumatra. Warp striped patterns include a central panel of white undyed stripes on black with wide red borders, and red and...