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Shoulder cloth

Title

Shoulder cloth

Year/Period

1900

Region

North Sumatra

Material

Cotton

Technique

Warp ikat

Dimension

Object size: 65 x 186.5 cm,
Object size: 65 x 163.3 cm

Accession No.

T-0029

Collection of

Asian Civilisations Museum

This cotton textile was worn by Batak men mainly for ceremonial dress rather than for everyday wear. The Batak textile has a wide varierty of stripes. This cloth has a central pattern known of grey stripes with white chevrons in warp ikat technique on a deep purple ground. The white sides or selvedge of the cloth are another outside influence adopted by Batak weavers in response to imports.