Title
                                    
                                        Cloth
                                    
                                Year/Period
                                    c. 1970s
                                Region
                                    Malaysia
                                Material
                                    
                                Technique
                                    
                                Dimension
                                    Object size: 54.5 x 132 cm
                                Accession No.
                                    T-0001-B
                                Collection of
                                    
                                
These two pieces of cloths show the first stage of the manufacture of Malaysian commercial machine-printed imitation batik. The fabric is made in the Pekalongan style batik with big floral, bird and butterfly motifs. Prints of this type were typically worn by women.
 
		 
                             
                             
                             
                            