The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 10, 2024
Sarong
1800s
Overall: 276.8 x 113 cm (109 x 44 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1928.656
Location: not on view
Description
This sarong, overlaid with gold leaf (or gold dust), would have been worn for high ceremonial occasions and festivals. The gold has been applied only to the parts of the sarong that would show when draped, and on one side only. The delicate, linear design with Chinese phoenixes, butterflies, and leafy tendrils is one of the characteristic styles of batiks made in cities along the north coast of Java. The "tumpal" (triangle) design of the wide end border (a pan-Southeast Asian motif that commonly occurs on northern Javanese batiks) seems to have symbolized growth and fertility as well as the sacred mountain, Meru.- Indonesian Textiles, Textile corridor, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 1983-May 1984).Techniques of Textile Printing. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 11, 1948-May 29, 1949).
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