Woman's Ceremonial Skirt (lawo butu)
Ngada
1901–2000
- Medium
- Three panels joined: cotton, warp resist dyed (warp ikat) warp-faced, weft-ribbed plain weave; joined with cotton in laced cross stitches; embellished and beaded with cotton, glass beads, shells and pieces of metal
- Dimensions
- 83 × 186 cm (32 5/8 × 73 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- textile
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
Tags
embellishedikat dyed21st Centuryshell (animal material)resist dyeingfiguregeometricgarmentneedlework (visual works)abstractindonesiancostumecotton (fiber)Textileglass beadsmetal