Object Details
Catalogue Status
Research in Progress
Description
Skirt cloth made of two lengths seamed down long sides of bright green silk cloth with scaled design in gold thread. Design shows long stemmed stylized floral forms extending into center of skirt at right angles from long side borders (8cm) which are filled with various diamond repeats with fret guard strips. Narrow borders at ends of skirt show stylized flower and leaf forms with geometric guard strips. Wide white cloth selvedge on border side of each length and narrow green cloth selvedge on opposite side of each length.
Credit Line
Gift of Frances Morris
Date
1931
Accession Number
1951-111-87
Restrictions & Rights
Usage conditions apply
Type
woven textiles
Skirt cloth
Medium
Medium: silk; metallic thread (gold leaf on paper, wound on cotton thread) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
Dimensions
H x W: 143.5 x 121 cm (56 1/2 x 47 5/8 in.)
made in
Bali, Indonesia
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Data Source
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Link to Original Record
Record ID
chndm_1951-111-87