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Textile:
ITC 2022.246

late 20th Century

A blue-black and white striped cotton weave with tassels. This is known as lurik; lurik may be plain black or plain white or a combination, as in this case. This one is woven in wider bands called jar...

Textile:
ITC 2022.80

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.76

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...

Textile:
ITC 2022.77

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...