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Peter Petrou

Aubergine Hand Woven Silk Lowan

( c. 1880) Palambang Sumatra Indonesia





Medium / Material

Dyed hand woven silk


Dimensions

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


Description

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


Literature

Dyers Art by Larson Buhler Solyom