Sarong
19th century (made)
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Sarong (skirt-cloth) woven on a four-needle hand loom in white, black, green, red and pink silks. The field is patterned with a bold check of green and pink squares. The head or kapala is figured with broad horizontal stripes in pink and shot-green crossed by vertical white lines. The whole fabric has a sub-pattern of small squares.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Silk |
| Brief description | Sarong (skirt-cloth), woven silk, Kelantan State, Malaysia, 19th century |
| Physical description | Sarong (skirt-cloth) woven on a four-needle hand loom in white, black, green, red and pink silks. The field is patterned with a bold check of green and pink squares. The head or kapala is figured with broad horizontal stripes in pink and shot-green crossed by vertical white lines. The whole fabric has a sub-pattern of small squares. |
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| Object history | This sarong was exhibited at British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, 1924. RP 1924/6927 |
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| Accession number | IM.274-1924 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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