Ulos ragidup (ceremonial shoulder cloth)
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Ulos ragidup, 'the cloth with the pattern of life', is a large ceremonial selendang (shoulder cloth) which is wrapped around the groom's mother by the bride's father at a wedding. Center area in dark maroon with vertical stripes of light blue and a bright red-brown. Ornamented on either end with intricate insets of cream color with horizontal bands of design, by making use of one additional warp. Wide borders in dark red, with a narrow stripe of dark blue on outer-most side and a stripe showing a geometric pattern in gold on the inner most side (touching the center panel), run the length of the piece on both sides of the center panel. Woven in three sections and fringed.
place: label: made in
content: North Sumatra, Indonesia
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alan L. Wolfe
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1961-115-17
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Ulos ragidup (ceremonial shoulder cloth)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: cotton Technique: tied resist patterning in warp or weft (ikat) on plain weave, with supplementary weft patterning
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 200 x 20 cm (6 ft. 6 3/4 in. x 7 7/8 in.)