Javanese batik tea cosy for the western market, 1915.
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Javanese batik tea cosy for the western market, 1915. A cotton rectangle with two mirror image trapezoidal panels, long edges toward the center. Meant to be cut out and stitched with a lining into a western style tea cosy. Design of scrolls and plant forms. Dark blue border, to be cut away in the making, surrounds the trapezoids. 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. An example of the use of traditional Javanese technique and patterning for a form meant for the European or Western trade.Approx. 14" x 19". Original cataloging identifies the design as "Pisang bali." in brown and indigo; Price listed as 4 F. or $1.60
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.T02937.000
label: catalog number
content: T02937.000
label: accession number
content: 59191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed, Batik
label: Object Name
content: tea cosy, batik
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 19 in x 14 in; 48.26 cm x 35.56 cm