Sarong (kain songket)
date: label: Date
content: early 19th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Brocaded sarong (kain songket) with a maroon silk warp and purple silk weft, brocaded with an all-over repeating leaf pattern in gold thread. Geometric borders brocaded in gold and a wide center band heavily brocaded in gold in the stylized "lawi ayam" or 'cockerel's tail feathers' motif.
place: label: made in
content: 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 Edith Wetmore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1937-8-2
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Sarong (kain songket)
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: 111.5 x 214.6 cm (43 7/8 x 84 1/2 in.)