Selendang (shoulder cloth)
date: label: Date
content: 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Long silk textile, probably a shoulder cloth (selendang), in dark brown against red. Plaid ground with all-over brocading of geometric pattern with center motif on main ground. Heavy brocading in borders.
place: label: made in
content: West 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: 1961-115-6
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Selendang (shoulder cloth)
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: silk, metallic threads Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 194 x 59.7 cm (76 3/8 x 23 1/2 in.)