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Shawl2787/31

Paisley wool shawl. Square of dark brown wool has a thick border of printed paisley motifs in gold, red, and blue. Two paisley tear-drop motifs are placed at opposing corners. The ends are left loose and fringed. Three small rectangles of black silk are hand stitched onto one edge of undersurface, at sides and centre.

Culture
Indian
Material
wool fibre, dye and silk fibre
Made in
France
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/27

Turquoise silk cloth with an overlaid purple centre panel and a looping gold filament border stitched on around the edge. The top surface of the runner-like cloth is covered with a decorative hand embroidery of mixed gold and copper filaments attached in a couching-technique known as stumping, with the resultant cross hatching of the ivory coloured thread covering the under surface. Cloth has long twined strands that hang out beneath metal fringe at both ends.

Culture
Chinese
Material
silk fibre, gold metal, copper metal and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Shoulder Cloth2787/18

Long silk shoulder cloth (selendang). Dyed, using plangi and trikit resist technique, to produce a red ground covered with white squares, some large and filled pink, green and purple star bursts, others small and filled with red, green and/or yellow, all within a double white lined border.

Culture
Sumatran
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Textile2787/14

Cloth fragment with a floral pattern of hand embroidery. Silky threads of red, pink, brown, gold, white and several shades of blue and green are stitched into a cream coloured fragment of fabric. Long edges are folded back and handstitched to the underside, one side with the addition of a piece of seam binding.

Culture
Indonesian
Material
silk fibre ?, cotton fibre and dye
Made in
China
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fragment: Textile2787/17 a-b

Two fragments of silk dyed using plangi and trikit resist techniques. Solid pink and green ground with shapes in purple, yellow, green and pink and smaller white squares, divided into diagonal bands and wedges with white. Each fragment has a seam stitched along one side, with diagonals opposing.

Culture
Javanese
Material
silk fibre and dye
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/28

Ceremonial skirt cloth (saput). Long maroon coloured cloth, hand woven on a back strap loom with discontinuous warp. The natural dyed silk is single sided and weft faced. Alternating rows of hand wrapped gold and silver thread designs decorate the central panel, framed within a gold border.

Culture
Balinese
Material
silk fibre, natural dye, gold metal, silver metal and cotton fibre ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial cloth2787/9

Ceremonial cloth in of songket brocade. Warp is red cotton, weft is purple silk, and the continuous and discontinuous supplementary weft is gold wrapped cotton thread. The centre motif of a traditional adat house is flanked by four karabau, or buffalo heads. The framing border of alternating gold filled squares and purple squares with crosses is thicker at the corners.

Culture
Minangkabau
Material
cotton fibre, silk fibre, gold metal and dye
Made in
Sumatra, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/26

Woman's ceremonial cloth (saput). The cloth consists of two panels of red silk, hand loomed on back-strap loom with discontinuous warp and dyed with a weft ikat resist technique-known as "endek", that are sewn together with the seam down the centre. A songket supplementary weft of silver covered threads divides the central design into four rows of rectangular shapes with tall tree-like cones at either end. Within the rectangles is a red, orange and cream weft ikat.

Culture
Balinese
Material
silk fibre, natural dye and silver metal ?
Made in
Bali, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Ceremonial Cloth2787/32 a-b

Patola ceremonial cloth of silk, dyed blue, red and cream with an ikat warp and weft resist technique. The geometric jewel motif (ratan chok bhat), runs down the centre of the cloth and there is a border of stripes on either side, one of which has been machine-sewn on. The long edges are machine-hemmed and the ends have been cut. A smaller piece (b) has been machine-hemmed on all sides.

Culture
Indian
Material
silk fibre, natural dye and cotton fibre
Made in
Gujarat, India
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Altar Cloth2787/21

Ceremonial altar cloth (tok wi). Long rectangle of green silk with imbedded floral patterning is hemmed on three edges and has a border sewn along the fourth edge, consisting of three different strips of fabric hand embellished with couching techniques and embroidery in gold, silver and blue thread. Two edges are lined at the back with strips of an orange coloured silk.

Culture
Chinese: Peranakan
Material
silk fibre and gold metal
Made in
Java, Indonesia
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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