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batik shawl
20th century
A batik shawl dyed in multi-colours, using black, blue, red, yellow and green. The main design patterns are of flying birds and curling vine and tendril foliage. The birds may be influenced by Chines...
batik tablecloth
before 1994
A square batik tablecloth. The central panel is green, surrounded by border in black with black and yellow leaves and flowers. In the middle of the main panel is a large flower in yellow, brown and bl...
kain and selendang
late 20th Century
Two pieces: A black and white batik kain and selendang. Fan and shell designs are set against an overall repeat oval pattern, with elongated diamond borders. An added metalic gutta (raised gold-colo...
batik painting
c. 1997
A batik picture from Bali showing people taking offerings on their heads to a Hindu temple, with a foreground of flowers and water. The high umbrellas would not usually be held over offerings. There ...
Making a batik cloth in the traditional Javanese way [samples]
Textile Traders (1984-)
late 20th-early 21st Century
A yellow card describing the seven stages of traditional Javanese batik with small triangular samples attached, with seven loose samples showing the stages of the process.
kain batik
c. 1975
A batik kain in indigo and brown with white dots. The pattern consists of parallel and alternating rows of pointed roundels, one containing a symmetrical design of leaves and tendrils and the other co...
batik style painting
late 20th Century
A batik style picture showing a rural scene in Bali with three highly stylised females in hats. It is thought that this piece is painted to look like a batik, but appears too complex to be one. All ...
batik painting
late 20th Century
A hand drawn batik of two heads in a square form with prominent ears, including spiral details, in green, yellow, orange and brown on a black cotton background. It has a cracked wax central background...
batik kain
late 20th Century
A silk satin woven brocade which has had batik applied. The cloth is a 'pagi sore' ('morning and afternoon') piece, i.e. with two sutally different patterns across the piece so it can be worn two ways...
kain panjang
P.T.Tong Mas
late 20th Century
A kain panjang (literally long cloth); a piece of batik style printed cloth (not hand made batik) in gold, black, blue and maroon. The main field has a foliate pattern against a powdery ground; the bo...
Batik sampler
late 20th Century
A batik tulis sampler showing 64 batik designs with their names. Some names are in Bahasa Sunda (BS, Sundanese), others in Bahasa Indonesia (BI) and one in Bahasa Jawa (BJ, Javanese). The receipt ca...
bahan kemeja batik
late 20th Century
Bahan kemeja (shirt material) batik. It is red and gold with winged and flower motifs. It consists of printed squares, and dots added after the printing process has been completed. There are signs of ...
batik tulis
late 20th Century
A batik tulis slendang (shawl) in brown and blue tones. Designs include a parang (dagger) pattern, tumpals, flowers, leaves and insects along bottom edges above a blue pane, along with white dots.
Batik tulis
c. 2005
A batik tulis selendang, with a design known as 'pisang Bali' [literally, Balinese banana]. There are also flower and wing motifs in brown and beige on a black background, and beige borders. This is a...
batik wall hanging
1973-1975
An unfinished batik wall hanging, with the outlines covered by wax for dyeing. Although there are still a lot of blank areas, some colours have already been applied: yellow, green, red, blue. The patt...
ikat kamben
Slamet Riady Weaving Company
c. 1973
A Balinese kamben or wastra (inner hip cloth for men). A black and yellow weft ikat, with some supplementary weft metallic thread at both ends. The central panel contains a floral motif which is rep...
slendang
1980-1983
A long piece of tie-dyed textile for a shawl (slendang). It may have been dyed twice, once for purple colour as the base and the second time for the central blue section. There are some white stitches...
batik jarik
before 1984
This is a 'jarik' (large waist cloth usually measuring about 2.5m x 1.0m) which had just been completed when it was purchased in Desa (village) Wiro, Kecamatan (sub-district) of Bayat, Kabupaten (dist...
unfinished jarik batik
1984
This piece is at an intermediate stage of production, with the outline complete and several colours already applied. Some sections have been rewaxed for further dyeing in due course. Navy, blue and pu...
kain batik
c. 2008
This is a kain batik (hip wrapper made of batik). This black and white batik is 'tulis' (hand drawn) and consists of diagonal stripes featuring three different alternating patterns in black, yellow an...