Sarong of off-white cotton with blue batik design with main body of a tiny blue polka-dot ground
- Title
- Sarong of off-white cotton with blue batik design with main body of a tiny blue polka-dot ground
- LC Subject
- main garments
- Description
- Sarong of off-white cotton with blue batik design with main body of a tiny blue polka-dot ground; scattered motifs of birds, squirrels, bats, salamanders, and various horned animals and flowers in blue batik with accent color of light brown from paste; narrow 1" blue band runs along close to the selvedge edges; ends are finished with a 5" border of patterned bands.
- Provenance
- Source of acquisition: Department Purchase
- Motif
- Birds Squirrels Salamanders Horned Animals Flowers
- Work Type
- sarongs
- Location
- Bali >> Lesser Sunda Islands >> Sunda Islands >> Indonesia
- Date
- 1901/2000
- Identifier
- 1948.005.002
- Rights
- In Copyright
- License
- Creative Commons: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
- Type
- Image
- Format
- image/tiff
- Material
- Cotton
- Technique
- Batik Wax-resist dye Paste decoration paint
- Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Primary Set
- Historic and Cultural Textile and Apparel Collection
- Institution
- Oregon State University
- Note
- The Balinese buy these from Java and then add the paste decoration - on this piece the light brown raised surface is the paste.
