Philippine Tribal Woven Bark Cloth Textile Hanging

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1980: item #423499

Finely woven textile from the Philippines. Possibly an example of a T'nalak bark cloth weaving from the T'boli tribe. The weaving hangs about 47" (plus 3" of fringe) in length from a decorative wood rod and is about 19 3/4" wide (33" 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.

Bali Cotton Ikat, Hand Woven, Natural Dyes

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1980: item #422040
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DESCRIPTION: A thick, hand woven cotton ikat in subtle peach, mauve and taupe/grey color tones, the design consisting of vertical bands of varying diamond shaped geometric patterns on the outer edges, and a wide center band depicting a stylized floral motif in the center, and human figures with headdresses standing between frogs and coiled snakes on each end. Both ends are finished with a twisted navy-black fringe. The colors on this ikat are soft and lovely, and it is woven so that it is rev... Click for details

Thai Cotton Weaving, Naenna Textile Studio

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1980: item #420711
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DESCRIPTION: A hand woven textile made from natural cotton with stitched embroidery using all natural dyes. The four section indigo colored background alternates with three woven white vertical stripes. On each blue panel, various naturalistic designs have been hand embroidered, such as fish, deer, flowers, running water (the zig zag motif), etc. The lower edge ends in braided tassels while the upper edge is hemmed. This textile banner originates from the Patricia Naenna weaving studio, loca... Click for details

Hand Woven Laotian Silk and Cotton Textile With Birds

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1980: item #419743
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This beautiful textile is in a traditional Laotian style and was hand woven in the “Khet” process in which the warp yarns are cotton thread and the weft yarns are raw silk. The design is executed in a colorful geometric weave with stylized birds and star patterns in red, green, orange and copper against a black background. Each end has three rows of stars separated by horizontal lines and a self fringe. All natural dyes have been used. This type of weaving is very time consuming and is becomin... Click for details

Iban Dayak pilih vest Borneo 1950s

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1960: item #418441
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An Iban Dayak vest with anthropomorphic motif, circa the 1950s, from the Kapit area in Sarawak, Borneo. The central motif is two green anthropomorphic male figures on the front and two at the back. The green figures wear long-feather head-dresses and long earrings. They have prominent sexual organs with two knobbed attachments called "palang". Between the two figures at the back are two other smaller green anthropomorphic figures. The vest is woven of trade cotton in supplementary weft ("pilih")... Click for details

Batak ragidup, sacred cloth from Sumatra

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1980: item #406593
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Circa 30-year old “ragidup”, woven by the Toba Batak people from Sumatra. Ragidup literally means “thread or pattern of life”, and is the most sacred and prestigious of all Batak textiles. Ragidups are given as blessing gifts by the bride’s father to the groom’s mother. They are also worn as mourning headdresses, used as baby announcements and wrapped around the shoulders of newly-wed couples at weddings. This ragidup was constructed from 5 pieces sewn together: the 2 white end panels, the cent... Click for details

Sumba cloth panel, tree of life and men

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1960: item #396800
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A cotton cloth panel from East Sumba, circa 40 years old, depicting a row of mature men (tau), trees, and birds in supplementary white warp threads on a dark blue ground. The men, with x-ray like ribs, are paired on either side of a “tree of life” in repeating sections, and have a very lively posture. One hand is on the hip and the other, on an unusually elongated arm, raised above the head. After the piece was woven, staining in tan and light blue of portions of the supplementary weave was done... Click for details

Cambodian silk weft ikat, natural colors

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1970: item #392638
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We recently visited Cambodia and were able to find several silk weft-patterned ikats dating from the period before the Vietnam war. This one, like most, had been sewn into a woman's sarong. It measures 38" x 64" and is in very good condition showing little wear and with only one tiny hole less than the size of a grain of rice. Very typical muted natural colors.

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Iban Dayak ikat vest

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1940: item #388092
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An ikat bird vest ("kalambi burong") circa 70-years old from the Iban-Dayaks of Sarawak, Borneo. The overall design is of repeating bands of bird-with-comb ("burong besugu") representations, followed by another repeating thinner bands of cross-planks representation("papan penukoh"), the bands separated by yellow-red-white-black lines. The dominant color is light brown-maroon, with dark brown highlights. Commercial cotton yarn and mixed natural and synthetic dyes were apparently used for the vest... Click for details

Hand Woven Raw Silk Laotian Pha Baeng

Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Textiles Pre 1970: item #331058
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DESCRIPTION: An exquisite blue/grey & white textile hand woven with raw silk. This textile originates from Laos and was worn as part of the traditional costume of Laotian women. The design is executed in diagonal white silk squares with geometric designs, intersected with horizontal blue/grey stripes of varying widths on each end, and finished with a knotted silk fringe. This textile would have originally been worn as a skirt wrap, and would be gorgeous and fashionable serving that same func... Click for details