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Sarong
Cotton pencil skirt with diagonal stripes, filled with different motifs
Patched sarong with motifs of birds and flowers, including chrysanthemums and lotus flowers. The long triangles (the 'kepala' = head of the cloth) represent stylized bamboo shoots and are inscribed with Chinese flower vases with flowers, birds and butterflies in between. In the diagonal borders various animals are depicted, including elephants, tigers, lions and water buffalos.
Type of item
- Object Type: pencil skirt
- pencil skirt
- Pencil skirt
Date
- voor 1940
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Type of item
- Object Type: pencil skirt
- pencil skirt
- Pencil skirt
Date
- voor 1940
Medium
- Material: cotton
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1940
Provenance
- 1994-01-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/65851
Format
- Technique: batik
- batik
- Batik
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z