Plain woven textile covered with multicoloured lateral stripes running along the entire length, and with two labels adhered to one side. [JP 27/3/2003]

Collection type: Object
Description: Plain woven textile covered with multicoloured lateral stripes running along the entire length, and with two labels adhered to one side. [JP 27/3/2003]
Long description: Unhemmed textile, edges slightly frayed. The stripes are predominantly yellow and black alternately and within each of these stripes are pink and blue warp threads. The weft threads on the majority of the textile are black. However about 260 mm from either end of the textile the wefts change colour, thereby changing the overall colour of the stripes. The wefts begin with a band of about 35 mm wide consisting of narrow widths of yellow, blue and pink wefts alternately, and then the rest of the wefts are pink. On one side of the textile are two labels on which are printed ? manufacturer's product information. One of the labels is a large triangle with gold coloured print, and just below that is a rectangular white label with black print including a printed photograph of a young boy. [JP 27/3/2003]
Geographical reference: Indonesia
Asia > South-eastern Asia > Indonesia; Java
Cultural groups: Javanese
Person: Field collector George Wood; Field collector Felicity Wood; PRM source George Wood; PRM source Felicity Wood
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1980
Date collected: 1980
Acquisition information: Donated: 2003
Materials and processes: Material Cotton Textile Plant, Material Paper Plant, Process Woven, Process Printed
Dimensions: Length x Width 2560 x 530 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 2003.69.20 Other numbers: J1
Research and responses: Kain lurik is a plainwoven cotton cloth patterned with stripes (kain meaning cloth for wrapping around the body and lurik being the descriptive word for the type of cloth). It is an all-purpose cloth used for clothing, carrying loads and other domestic uses. There are specific names for these textiles according to the colour of the stripes or the width of cloth. Traditionally it is woven on body-tension looms but much is now made by machine in factories. Source: Handwoven Textiles of Southeast Asia by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Singapore; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. [JP 27/3/2003]

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