Title
Hanging or partition cloth
Year/Period
First half of the 20th century (before 1940)
Region
Java, Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 160.0 x 180.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00966
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
Section of loosely woven warp ikat cloth known in Java as kain gubah or kain kasang. These are described in period records as being used as decorative hangings, curtains or partition cloth for ceremonial or festive occasions. See Maxwell (2003, p. 224) for a similar example. There is scant information on these textiles in the literature, in part because it was probably considered inferior and "commercial". Jasper and Pirngadie discuss these cloths briefly in Vol. 1 of their "De Inlandsche Kunstnijverheid in Nederlandsch Indie".
