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Textile:
ITC 2022.101

late 20th Century

A cotton ulos (shawl), intended to be worn around the shoulders. It is mostly black with orange, pink and white ikat stripes. The traditional Tenun fabric of the Batak people of North Sumatra, the ulo...

Textile:
ITC 2022.13

c. 1995

A cotton batik tulis (hand drawn) from East Java, with a foliate motif against a tiny wave pattern ground, rendered in browns and some blue. It is possible that the flowers are stamped. There may be ...

Textile:
ITC 2022.237

late 20th - early 21st Century

A silk batik with a chevron design in red and white, incorporating citrus fruit and leaf motifs, and an S shaped motif. The S shaped motif is one of the oldest Indonesian batik motifs, known as Parang...

Textile:
ITC 2022.238

late 20th Century

A batik tulis kain (sarung/hip wrapper) for women. It is predominantly dark red, with navy blue and gold, an eye/dot pattern and tumpals on the borders. There are complex floral and winged motifs in d...

Textile:
ITC 2022.236

c.1993

A batik, mainly brown, on hand-woven coarse cotton. The wax covering the background is deliberately cracked before dyeing so allowing irregular lines of colour to appear on the cloth. This is a well ...

Textile:
ITC 2022.291

c. 1992

A large batik tablecloth, or taplak meja, with a bold coloured pattern on a black background and with hand painted application of gold gutta paint in a coletan technique. The colours used are orange, ...