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Shoulder or Head Cloth (selendang) by Minangkabau — VisualArtsDB
Shoulder or Head Cloth (selendang)
Minangkabau
1801–1900
Medium
Silk, cotton, and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-wrapped silk, plain weave with supplementary patterning and brocading wefts, plied main warp fringe terminating in knotted silk, cut tassels
Dimensions
166.4 × 71.8 cm (65 1/2 × 30 3/4 in.)
Genre
weaving
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Styles
indonesian
Tags
silk (fiber)
gold leaf
brocading
indonesian
knotting
cotton (fiber)
Textile
paper (fiber product)
weaving
plain weaving
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