Tjanting, Javanese batik tool, 1914
date: label: date made
content: 1914
label: date made
content: ca. 1914
label: date made
content: 1894-1914
notes: label: Description
content: Tjanting, Javanese batik tool, 1914. The tjanting is a pen-shaped tool used to draw a design with melted wax on cloth; for batik, or wax-resist dyeing. This example has a short tubular handle with a copper applicator tip. The handle is bamboo, and protects the worker from the hot wax. The tip is both a reservoir for the melted wax and a thin hollow spout through which the wax is drawn onto the cloth. The price in Java in 1921, when this group of objects was purchased, was 5 cents, according to the accession file. Accompanied a group of 6 batiks purchased from a Washington DC collector in 1921. The file indicates that the collector had acquired the pieces in Java either in 1894 or 1914.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Indonesia: Javanese
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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.T04328.000
label: catalog number
content: T04328.00A
label: accession number
content: 67243
objectType: label: Object Name
content: tjanting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: bamboo, copper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in x 1 in; 15.24 cm x 2.54 cm