PROBABLY SUMBAWA OR POSSIBLY PADANG, INDONESIA

Works from the Donald Friend Collection
Sydney
27 October 2013
234

LOWER GARMENT

PROBABLY SUMBAWA OR POSSIBLY PADANG, INDONESIA

supplementary weft weave. Cloth plainly woven in solid pink with geometric star and diamond motifs and decorative borders. The centre field is more elaborate with a decorated floral and tumpal motif

114.0 x 172.0 cm

Estimate: 
$500 - 1,000
Catalogue text

Songket is the term used to describe a technique in which additional patterns are woven into a material with supplementary weft threads, either running across the entire width or covering individual parts of the cloth.