Title
Pua sungkit
Year/Period
19th century
Region
Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia
Material
Technique
Dimension
Gross measurement: 93.0 x 220.0 cm
Accession No.
2017-00913
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Michael Palmieri
This cloth is a pua sungkit, a type of cloth produced using a rare supplementary warp wrapping technique in which additional coloured threads are carefully wrapped around the warp threads as the cloth is woven. Most pua sungkit have a red ground colour but this one is dyed indigo blue, making it one of the rarest Iban cloths produced.
