Title
Skirt cloth
Year/Period
First half of the 20th century
Region
Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 255.0 x 105.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00985
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
Batik skirt cloth of the Surakarta court style with a complex design of auspicious motifs and symbols. The main motif are sawat, a stylized bird-like form meant to represent Garuda, the composite man-bird deity from Hinduism who is the mount of Vishnu. These are surrounded by various birds, insects and sea creatures and filler motifs (semen) of creeping plants, small meru (cosmic mountain), arrows, diamonds and dots.
