This batik is structured in the pagi-sore format, comprising two different but related designs on each half of the kain panjang. One side comprises large bouquets of carnations interspersed with butterflies and birds. This buketan design is also applied to the other side although the large rose bouquets are surrounded by densely packed background patterns. 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.
