A work made of two panels joined: silk and gold and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; edged along selvages with silk and gold-and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps.

Aristocratic Waist Cloth (saput songket)

c. 1925

Indonesia, Bali, Singaraja

Singaraja

Two panels joined: silk and gold and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, weft resist dyed (weft ikat) plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts; edged along selvages with silk and gold-and silver-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped cotton, plain weave with supplementary patterning warps

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