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Collections

Ceremonial Textile (Kain Sembagi)late 18th century

Not on view
Horizontal textile with a crimson-red ground covered in a dense grid of concentric square medallions in navy, teal, coral, and ivory, with wide end panels of navy and ivory sawtooth triangles
Title
Ceremonial Textile (Kain Sembagi)
Place Made
India, Coromandel coast
Date Made
late 18th century
Medium
Cotton plain weave with hand-drawn resist-dyeing and stamped mordant dyeing in natural dyes
Dimensions
42 1/8 × 104 3/4 in. (107 × 266.07 cm)
Credit Line
Inger McCabe Elliott Collection
Accession Number
M.91.184.650
Classification
Textiles
Collecting Area
Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography
  • Heringa, Rens and Veldhuisen, Harmen. Fabric of Enchantment: Batik from the North Coast of Java. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Weatherhill, Inc., 1996.