Title
Textile
Year/Period
Early-mid 20th century
Region
Bangka island, southeast Sumatra
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 253 x 69.2 cm
Accession No.
T-0734
Collection of
This piece of silk textile of crimson, red ground and gold threads is woven in the weft ikat method. It consists of the repeating motif, 'sawat', the Garuda represented by a pair of wings and a tail set within a decorative rhombus. Across the centrefield of the cloth this design is repeated and seemed to go on beyond the borders. This is a feature often found in Malay, Jambi and Javanese batiks and is seen as an expression of the Islamic concept of the infinite.
