Breast cloth

Title
Breast cloth
Year/Period
First half of the 20th century
Region
Central Java, Indonesia
Object Type
breast-cloths, textiles (visual works)
Material
cotton (textile)
Technique
stem stitches, batik
Dimension
Object size: 240.0 x 52.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00977
Collection of
Asian Civilisations Museum
Credit Line
Gift of H.P. Wynen, Den Haag. Presented to the ACM by the City of Delft, Netherlands

This batik breast cloth or kemben has a stitch resist (tritik) centrefield dyed in natural indigo blue. It is made in in the Yogyakarta court style, probably before 1940.

 

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