Sample of waxed cotton cloth with blue dyed areas re-waxed (reverse); step twelve in the Javanese batik process, 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Sample of waxed cotton cloth with blue dyed areas re-waxed (reverse); step twelve in the Javanese batik process, 1915. Approximately 10" x 12"; Design has a central butterfly motif surrounded by scrolling ferns and curlicues; with four outer borders. This sample has had the blue-dyed areas re-waxed on the reverse, in order to protect them when the fabric is immersed in the red dye bath.. Step twelve in a set of 14 process samples together with 22 finished items, made by prisoners in Java for display at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Purchased by the US National Museum for the Division of Textiles from the Netherlands East Indies Commission at the close of the Exposition.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Indonesia: Javanese
topic: label: related event
content: Panama-Pacific International Exposition
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content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
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content: Javanese Batiks
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content: Textiles
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TE.T02917.000
label: catalog number
content: T02917.000
label: accession number
content: 59191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Printing Process, Batik
label: Object Name
content: fabric sample, batik process
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton, wax (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in x 10 in; 30.48 cm x 25.4 cm