Object Details
- Description
- Javanese batik piano runner for the western market, 1915. Long narrow silk rectangle, batiked with a repeating pattern of birds in profile and frontal positions, against a ground of plant forms. Border on all four sides of scrolling vine, and outer border of plain dark blue. 47" L x 6" W. Original cataloging identifies the design as "Django djarat." Tan, light and dark blue, white details. Price listed on the catalog card as: 12F., $2.80 - this is not consistent with some of the other price comparisons. 12 F. would be $4.80. An example of the use of traditional Javanese technique and patterning for a form meant for the European or Western trade. One of 22 finished batik textiles, together with 14 process samples, made by prisoners in Java for exhibition at the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Purchased by the US National Museum for the Division of Textiles from the Netherlands East Indies Commission at the close of the Exposition.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- date made
- 1914-1915
- Physical Description
- silk (overall material)
- plain weave, batik (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 47 in x 6 in; 119.38 cm x 15.24 cm
- Object Name
- Sample, Printed
- piano runner, batik
- piano runner, batik
