Cloth

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Title
Cloth
Year/Period
c. 1970s
Region
Malaysia
Material
Dimension
Object size: 54.5 x 132 cm
Accession No.
T-0001-B

These two pieces of cloths show the first stage of the manufacture of Malaysian commercial machine-printed imitation batik. The fabric is made in the Pekalongan style batik with big floral, bird and butterfly motifs. Prints of this type were typically worn by women.

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