Title
Ceremonial cloth
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th century
Region
North Sumatra
Dimension
Object size: L184.7 x W108.3 cm (Without tas
Accession No.
1997-04467
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ng
The central panel of this ‘ulos rujat’, or ceremonial cloth, features a broad central panel of striped design is woven by the wrap ikat technique, where the vertical threads are tied-and-dyed. Its fringes and twined borders were done by the men. While textiles are usually the domain of women in Southeast Asia, for the Batak people, sometimes both the crafts of both male and female are necessary to complete a piece of textile
