Title
Sarong
Creator
Year/Period
1936–39
Region
Pekalongan, Java, Indonesia
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 107.2 x 98.4 cm
Accession No.
2024-00377
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the family of Mr and Mrs Lee Kip Lee
The badan (body) of this sarong is decorated with a buketan (bouquet) motif. Wavy diagonal bands of alternating floral designs are shown on the kepala (head). It is signed “Nj: Oeij Kok Sing” and stamped with a dealer’s mark of characters and plants. 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.
