Object Details
- Description
- Javanese batik silk table cover, 1915. A 36" square with a symmetrical design of Garuda wings, plant motifs, serpents, with imitation fringe borders on all four sides. Designed and made for export, to the Western market. Tan, light and dark blue. 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. Motif described as "Oeloh Nogo". Price given as 35 F, or $14.00.
- 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: 36 in x 36 in; 91.44 cm x 91.44 cm
- Object Name
- Sample, Printed
- table cover, batik
