Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Skirt cloth made of two lengths seamed down long sides of bright green silk cloth with scaled design in gold thread. Design shows long stemmed stylized floral forms extending into center of skirt at right angles from long side borders (8cm) which are filled with various diamond repeats with fret guard strips. Narrow borders at ends of skirt show stylized flower and leaf forms with geometric guard strips. Wide white cloth selvedge on border side of each length and narrow green cloth selvedge on opposite side of each length.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Frances Morris
- 1931
- Accession Number
- 1951-111-87
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- woven textiles
- Skirt cloth
- Medium
- Medium: silk; metallic thread (gold leaf on paper, wound on cotton thread) Technique: plain weave with discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
- Dimensions
- H x W: 143.5 x 121 cm (56 1/2 x 47 5/8 in.)
- made in
- Bali, Indonesia
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Textiles Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1951-111-87
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4d45f0831-401f-4b5f-8105-f06580f21ab9
