Manobo abaca tritik shirt and pants

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1960: item #699698
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A rare abaca (banana plant fiber) tritik shirt and pants (locally called “pimokan”), circa the 1950s, maybe earlier, made probably by the Manobo people from south central Mindanao, Philippines. The tritik patterns are created by over-sewing the abaca cloth in waxed thread before dyeing and removing the waxed thread after dyeing the cloth, thus leaving the white designs on this brownish-red naturally-dyed abaca cloth. The patterns on the shirt are a collection of lozenges, Xs and coils, with four... Click for details

Rare Yao Wedding Apron with French Coins.

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1960: item #652447
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From Northern Laos, this hand woven Yao wedding apron is decorated with French coins. It was made by a native Yao woman during the French occupation of Laos. Purchased in 1950 by Shirley A. Arnold, wife of Daniel C. Arnold (Chief of Station for CIA), Mrs.Arnold had the wedding apron framed by the same framers used by The White House, Washington, DC. The background of the apron is a beautiful dark indigo blue. All colors, yellw, red, white, egglant, emerald green, etc., and orange tassels are ... Click for details

Seratok ikat bidang cross beam pattern ca. 1920s.

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1930: item #650895
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An exquisitely patterned ikat bidang, woven in a very high level of workmanship by Ibans from the Seratok area in Sarawak, Borneo, circa the 1920s. This bidang depicts the cross beam pattern (“papan penukoh"). There are four and a half levels of the papan penukoh pattern. While at first glance each level of the penukoh pattern appears to be the same as the other levels, a close inspection reveals that each level is slightly different. The ground color is red brown and maroon, with highlights of... Click for details

Seratok ikat bidang combination of patterns ca. 1920s

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1930: item #650882
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A beautifully dyed ikat bidang, woven in a very high level of workmanship by Ibans from the Seratok area in Sarawak, Borneo, circa the 1920s. This bidang depicts a combination of highly stylized patterns, the spider motif (“buah emplawa”) on one side and the hexagonal padi husking box (“pelangka”) on the other. On each vertical border is a band of the centipede crossing the river (“embayar semerai sungai”) motif between two narrower bands of the striated snake (“empetut”) motif. The ground colo... Click for details

Seratok ikat bidang spider pattern ca. 1920s

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1930: item #650866
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An ikat bidang, created and woven in a superb level of workmanship by Ibans from the Seratok area in Sarawak, Borneo, circa the 1920s. Depicted on the bidang are two full spider patterns (locally called “buah emplawa”) amidst hooks and tendrils. On each border are an unusual three bands of “crossing the river” motif. Along one border, most likely the lower border when worn, is an inch wide of red trade cotton hand-sewn attached edging, probably contemporaneous with the bidang. The ground color ... Click for details

Red Yao Embroidered Indigo Tribal Tunic

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1950: item #636635
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Embroidered in the tribal style of the mountain-dwelling Red Yao, this homespun natural indigo tunic came from a village in Tuyen Quang Province in the North Vietnam Highlands. Although this Yao group, also known as the Mien, lu Mien, Dao and Highland Yao, shares some cultural traditions with their Yao tribal cousins in Laos, Thailand and Burma, the Red Yao wear costumes with their own distinctive touches. Red scarves tied turban style on their heads, indigo cotton that they spin, weave and dye ... Click for details

Song ikat bidang circa 1930s

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1940: item #600748
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A finely patterned, rare cotton ikat bidang, woven in a very high level of workmanship by Ibans from the Song area of Sarawak, Borneo, circa the 1930s. The bidang’s pattern comprises six repeating bands between narrower repeating bands. The upper motifs of the wider bands represent omen birds, while the lower motifs represent insects, crustaceans and bamboo shoots. The narrower bands depict omen bird feathers and rattan vine motifs. The ikat patterning of the different motifs is very sharp and... Click for details

Khumi tube skirt

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1950: item #548252
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Old Chin skirt, circa 1950, from the Khumi subgroup in Burma. The design is called “amtosa” although deceptively simple is really extremely complex; please note in enlargements that the reverse side of this textile does not show any of the pattern on the front. This is made on a backstrap loom of very fine homespun cotton with a beaded open work border along the selvedge. Three small repaired holes. L: 1.8m/6ft and W: 40.5cm/16in.

Iban ikat bidang Sarawak, Borneo 1930s

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1940: item #539512
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This is an Iban ikat bidang, the main motif of which relates to the deer pattern, from the Kapit area in Sarawak, Borneo, circa 1930-1940. The bent figures from top to bottom are the deer representations. Measuring about 17.5 x 38 inches, the traditional bidang red and maroon color tones, obtained from natural dyes, are still vivid, somehow muted with age. There are some pin-like holes and some color fading. Else, the bidang is in very good condition. The bidang (skirt) is worn by women during ... Click for details

Javanese Batik

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1940: item #527574
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Lasem, Java, Indonesia 1930-1940 " A lovely old batik cloth hand-drawn in Lasem on the north coast of Java for export to the batik market in Sumatra, and a mystery piece: it has the format of a shouldercloth, with wide end panels similar to the type used as a baby carrier (gendongan), but is much too short for this purpose. It may have been made to order as a ceremonial covering cloth. The class of pattern is known by its classic red and blue colors as bang-biru, appropriate for married women ... Click for details