Javanese batik table runner for the western market, 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Javanese batik table runner for the western market, 1915. Long narrow table runner; silk plain weave with batik design in tan, light and dark blue, and white, of birds and plant forms against a densely patterned ground with vines and ferns. Side and end borders with tumpal or triangle motif; end borders continue with a imitation fringe and then a final border of rows of wavy lines. Outer border on all sides of plain dark blue. Approx. 58" L x 15" W. Original cataloging identifies the pattern as 'Kembang gojang" and the price as 24 F. or $9.60. An example of the use of traditional Javanese technique and patterning for a form meant for the Euroepan or Western trade. One of 22 finished batik textiles, together with 14 process samples, made by prisoners in Java for exhibition 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.T02934.000
label: catalog number
content: T02934.000
label: accession number
content: 59191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sample, Printed
label: Object Name
content: table runner, batik
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 58 in x 15 in; 147.32 cm x 38.1 cm