From The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

Category: Southeast Asia

Communicating Kingship and Devotion Across Cultures

Post author By GW Museum
Post date November 12, 2022

White textile fragment with red, gold, and green floral motifs and wide-stanced repeated figures.

Detail of phaa nung skirt, ceremonial; India, Coromandel Coast; c. late 18th century., Coromandel Coast, India, Late 18th century, Cotton, resist-dyed; 42 x 25 cm. Cotsen Textile Traces Study Collection T-0669. Bruce M. White Photography.

All Southeast Asia

“Hol Pidan” from Cambodia

Post author By GW Museum
Post date October 22, 2021

Textile hanging (hol pidan), Cambodia, 20th century. Silk; twill weave, weft ikat; 84 x 186 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 2004.11.1. Gift of Dona Dinsdale.

All Southeast Asia

Wrapped Skirt from Indonesia

Post author By GW Museum
Post date August 27, 2021

Wrapped skirt (kain panjang), Indonesia, Java, 1940s. Cotton, batik, 255 x 105 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 2010.8.3. Gift of Katie Heffernan.

All Southeast Asia

Mantle from Java

Post author By GW Museum
Post date June 25, 2021

Mantle (samir) (detail; Indonesia, Java, Surakarta; 1870-79. Silk; supplementary-warp pile, appliqué; 116 x 5 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 1979.6.22. Gift of K. R. T. Hardjonagoro.

All Southeast Asia

Iban Jacket from Malaysia

Post author By GW Museum
Post date June 4, 2021

Jacket (kalambi); Malaysia, Sarawak; Iban people; late 19th or early 20th century. Cotton, beads; sungkit (discontinuous supplementary weft wrapping); 50 x 41 cm. The Textile Museum Collection 2016.15.12. Gift of Barbara G. and David W. Fraser.