Title
Sarong
Year/Period
early 20th century
Region
Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 104.7 x 96.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00867
Collection of
This lavender-and-green sarong is decorated with large sprays of flowers grouped together in a bouquet, with birds and butterflies flying around them. The buketan/bouquet motif reoccurs throughout the textile and was a design popularised by Eurasian batik maker, Eliza Van Zuylen. This sarong would have been worn with an open jacket with V-shaped lapels known as the kebaya. Sombre colours of black, blue purple and green were considered appropriate for mourning periods in the 20th century.
