Skirt Cloth (songket balapak)

Provenance

E.M. (Pete) Bakwin, Chicago, by Dec. 14, 2005 [E.M. Bakwin Collection of Indonesian Textiles; incoming receipt RX24972, Dec. 14, 2005; copy in curatorial object file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2005.

Skirt Cloth (songket balapak)

Minangkabau

1950/2000

Accession Number

185338

Medium

Cotton and rayon, plain weave with gilt-metal-strip-wrapped cotton supplementary patterning wefts

Dimensions

149.2 × 95.6 cm (58 3/4 × 37 5/8 in.)

Classification

textile

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of E. M. Bakwin Indonesian Textile Collection