The buketan design, comprising large bouquets of European flowers interspersed with butterflies and birds, is shown on this sarong. Single blooms fill the cloth, creating a cascading effect and injecting movement to the design. Tiny star motifs in starburst design on the blue, main design field (badan) and arranged in circles on the peach, vertical band (kepala) further enhance the design. This batik is part of a large group donated to the museum by the descendants of three generations of female batik makers from Pekalongan. It was made by the grandmother of the donors, Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing. Nyonya Oeij Kok Sing was a second-generation batik maker in Pekalongan. She began to produce high quality batiks in the 1920s. Her batiks from the 1930s reveal great technical virtuosity and a creative use of colour, made possible by synthetic dyes from Europe. After the Second World War, her daughter Jane Hendromartono (1924–1988) took over the family batik business.
