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
Tags
silk (fiber)gold leafbrocadingindonesianknottingcotton (fiber)Textilepaper (fiber product)weavingplain weaving
