A work made of pieced cotton, plain weaves with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvets; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave; glazed cotton, point twill weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, paper fiber padding, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, gold-eaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, in satin stitches; laid work and couching; embellished with gilt-metal coils and spangles; edged with emboshed silvered-metal shapes, ployester, rayon, and glassbead fringe; lined with cotton, plain weaves.

Part of a Malay Festive Hanging (tirai)

19th/20th century

Indonesia, Plmatra or Borneo

Indonesia

Pieced cotton, plain weaves with supplementary pile warps forming cut solid velvets; appliquéd with cotton, plain weave; glazed cotton, point twill weave; embroidered with silk, cotton, paper fiber padding, gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton, gold-eaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, in satin stitches; laid work and couching; embellished with gilt-metal coils and spangles; edged with emboshed silvered-metal shapes, ployester, rayon, and glassbead fringe; lined with cotton, plain weaves

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