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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Batik fragment
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date18th-19th century
MediumCotton
DimensionsOverall: 25.4 x 23.8 cm (10 x 9 3/8 in.) Frame: 43.2 x 35.6 cm (17 x 14 in.)
Credit LineGift of the Carnegie Corporation
Object numberS2024.5.4
Not on view
DescriptionResist dye work in brown, white, and blue design.

Additional Details

Provenance The Eliza M. and Sarah L. Niblack Collection
Markings Verso, lower left (black ink stamp): "EX NIBLACK COLLECTION"
Inscribed Verso, top left corner (adhesive label): "4. BATIK. Resist dye work. / JAVANESE, XVIII-XIX Century. / In batik work, the cloth is coat with a thin film of / wax poured on at the boiling point; after this hardens / the pattern is incised in the wax with a sharp pointed / instrument. When dipped in the dye the color pene- / trates through the tracing while the cloth, protected / by the wax, retains its original color. When more than / one color is desired the process is repeated."
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date: 19th century
Medium: Handwoven cotton with block printing and brushwork
Object number: S2024.5.11
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date: late 19th century
Medium: Cotton with silk embroidery
Object number: S2024.5.17
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Turkish
Date: c. 1860-1880
Medium: Leather, dyed cotton, wool gold thread, silver thread, fur
Object number: 2023.10.9
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date: c. 1765
Medium: Block printed cotton
Object number: S2024.5.29
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Japanese
Date: c. 1920-1929
Medium: Silk
Object number: S2024.5.20
Photograph by Dave Revette
Karen Hampton
Date: 2015
Medium: Dye-sublimation print on polyester twill over archival inkjet print on silk organza, with hand-stitching
Object number: 2015.4
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Chinese
Date: 19th-20th century
Medium: Cotton, leather, twine, woven grass
Object number: 2023.10.1
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist
Date: 19th-20th century
Medium: Leather, cotton, thread, feathers?
Object number: 2023.10.6
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Turkish
Date: 19th-20th century
Medium: Leather, cotton, thread, iron, blue dye
Object number: 2023.10.13
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Chinese
Date: after 1919
Medium: Silk, cotton
Object number: 2023.10.15
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Date: 19th century
Medium: Cotton with gold and silver thread
Object number: S2024.5.7
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Unknown artist, Philippine Islands
Date: 19th century
Medium: Silk and fiber
Object number: S2024.5.3