Title
Sarong
Year/Period
1941
Region
Pekalongan, Java, Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 106.5 x 100.0 cm
Accession No.
2024-00367
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the family of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
The kepala (head) of this sarong contains a buketan (bouquet) motif with butterflies and smaller flowers. The badan (body) contains a variety of different flowers. It is stamped “Oeij Kok Sing / 9 Sept 41”. Oeij is the historical Dutch spelling for Oey, a Chinese Indonesian surname of Hokkien origin.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.
