Javanese batik necktie for the western market, 1915.
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Javanese batik necktie for the western market, 1915. A long narrow cotton rectangle, approx. 39" L x 4" W. The shape of a flat man's bow tie, narrow in the center and widening out to angled ends, is batiked onto the cloth, and surrounded by a dark blue edge. Made to be cut out and sewn with a lining to make a man's bowtie. Repeat pattern of checks with crosses and dots. Brown and indigo blue. An example of the use of traditional Javanese technique and patterning for a form meant for the European 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.Original cataloging identifies pattern as "Djamblungi", Price listed as 2 F. or $0.80
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.T02939.000
label: catalog number
content: T02939.000
label: accession number
content: 59191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed, Batik
label: Object Name
content: necktie, batik
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 39 in x 4 in; 99.06 cm x 10.16 cm