From our Southeast Asia Collection, an exceptional and large early 20th century gold thread ceremonial shoulder cloth, or kain selendag songket, from the Minangkabau people of Sumatra, Indonesia, circa 1920, executed using heavy gauge gold thread intricately woven into floral and geometric motifs on a red silk backing. The processes for creating and spinning the gold thread and weaving the design motifs are excruciatingly time consuming, thus this technique is generally reserved for pieces of s... Click for details
This 19th century hand woven textile panel from the Indonesian island of Timor was worn as a shoulder cloth, or selendang. A colorful supplementary weft band that centers the panel combines the open loop and triangle pattern often seen in Timor weavings. Woven into the ikat sections on either side of the triangle-patterned supplementary weft are small intricate shapes that, at a glance, resemble hieroglyphics. The complex ikat and supplementary weft designs on this heavy cotton piece were produc... Click for details
From our Southeast Asia Collection, a lovely handmade silk on cotton vintage table runner from Laos, using tan colored silk woven into geometric designs with magenta and blue/green colored accents. The runner is shown only half size as we have folded it to fit within the confines of our display boards, but it is actually quite long and very well-suited for long dinner tables or sideboards. It can also be displayed either framed or unframed as a wall hanging. Acquired in the late 1980's, we can b... Click for details
Fine and rare Iban Pua from Sarawak with finely woven and complex “tree of life” (vines with fireflies, fruit, and blossoms) design. The sides are bordered with engkaramba and crocodiles, the top of this piece has a bamboo shoot design while the bottom has more engkaramba (anthropomorphic spirit design). For the exception of the stripes on the side this piece is woven from all natural dyes and handspun thread, apart from one small repaired 2.5cm tear noted in last enlargement this pie... Click for details
Burmese munuscript ribbon used for wrapping the bible.
Age: Burma, early 20th Century
Measurement: Length 321 C.M. / Width 2.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for mor... Click for details
Burmese munuscript ribbon used for wrapping the bible.
Age: Burma, early 20th Century
Measurement: Length 380 C.M. / Width 3.3 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for mor... Click for details
Burmese munuscript ribbon used for wrapping the bible.
Age: Burma, early 20th Century
Measurement: Length 297 C.M. / Width 2.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for mor... Click for details
Burmese munuscript ribbon used for wrapping the bible.
Age: Burma, early 20th Century
Measurement: Length 455 C.M. / Width 1.7 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for mor... Click for details
Finely woven folk art textile from the Philippines. Possibly an example of a T'nalak bark cloth weaving from the T'boli tribe. The weaving hangs about 49" (plus 3" of fringe) in length from a decorative wood rod and is about 19 1/2" wide (32" including the wood rod). The top of the textile is decorated with red, white and black bead work accented with brass bells. Imported in the 1980's, this textile was stored safely away and has never been hung. It is in excellent condition.
Finely woven folk art textile from the Philippines. Possibly an example of a T'nalak bark cloth weaving from the T'boli tribe. The weaving hangs about 45" (plus 2" of fringe) in length from a decorative wood rod and is about 19 1/2" wide (32" including the wood rod). The top of the textile is decorated with red, white and black bead work accented with brass bells. Imported in the 1980's, this textile was stored safely away and has never been hung. It is in excellent condition.
