Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 9
Top 10: Place
blanket
late 20th Century
A striped cloth in red, yellow, orange, green, yellow and pink with hook and rhomb symbols. The colouring is much lighter than equivalent pieces from this region.
mau
late 20th Century
A predominantly black cotton mau or selimut (blanket), with lines of yellow dots and narrow multicoloured stripes. There are supplementary weft designs in synthetic wool, including crosses and zigzags...
ikat shawl
late 20th Century
A thick cotton shawl from Sabu. There are white and brown ikat designs on a black background, including zigzags. There are also narrow yellow and brown warp stripes; the yellow stripes have been added...
mau
late 20th Century
A predominantly black cotton mau (blanket), with narrow multicoloured stripes. There are supplementary weft designs in synthetic wool, including crosses, diamonds and five rows of hook-and-rhomb. This...
ikat weave
late 20th Century
A black cotton weave with white ikat designs, striped warp edges, fringing and gold metallic thread.
beti
late 20th Century
A beti (a multifunctional cloth with two cotton panels sewn together along the warp sides). The pattern consists of two panels in purple on black, showing warp ikat bowls of fruit and birds; three nar...
shawl
late 20th Century
A woven shawl. The pattern consists of a large number of parallel stripes in yellow, red, light green, blue, purple and white. There are tassels at both ends. The central band includes some supplement...
warp ikat blanket
c. 1983
A large warp ikat blanket, possibly from Flores. The colors are blue, black and red in plain and ikat stripes.
shoulder cloth
c. 2007
A sigi iki (shoulder cloth) from Timor, in black and red stripes with a supplementary warp in white.