Title
Skirtcloth
Year/Period
first half of the 20th century
Region
Tanimbar, Maluku Indonesian Archipelago
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 88.0 x 56.0 cm
Accession No.
2018-00929
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the City of Delft, Netherlands
This skirtcloth consists of two lengths of backstrap woven cloth stitched together horizontally along the selvedge. Made using the weft ikat technique, the cloth is decorated with rows of stylized human and animal figures, possibly lizards, bordered with thin paired stripes of red interspersed with plain brown or simply decorated strips with staggered plain dashes.
