Javanese batik handkerchief, 1915
date: label: date made
content: 1914-1915
notes: label: Description
content: Javanese batik handkerchief, 1915. Unfinished cotton handkerchief with a batik border design of trees with intertwining branches, in light and dark indigo blue. Tree trunks in the corners, the branches make up the design around the edges. Central field is unpatterned, and the edges of the handkerchief have not been hemmed. One selvage. Made using a traditional batik technique in a style geared to the Western market. 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. The design is termed 'Boenga Kemanji' in the original cataloging. Price 2 F., or $0.80. 15" square, approx.
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.T02941.000
label: catalog number
content: T02941.000
label: accession number
content: 59191
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fabric, Printed, Batik
label: Object Name
content: handkerchief, batik
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cotton (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 in x 15 in; 38.1 cm x 38.1 cm