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Textile:
ITC 1065

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.130

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.16

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.20

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 ...

Textile:
ITC 2016.267

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.

Textile:
ITC 2022.290

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.21

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 ...

Textile:
ITC 2022.28

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.30

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.69

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.227

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.231

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 ...