Product Description

Balinese Tabing 2

Material: Cotton
Style: Bali, Indonesia
Size: Length 137 cm, Width 90 cm
Order Number: MHSBT02

The most spectacular of the Balinese embroideries are tabing. It’s a complete composition in itself and decorates Hindu temples and other buildings.

The scenes may be invented but based on the Mahabharata. or Ramayana epics.

They are rectangular or square and the average width is 30 cm and 60 cm long.

The names of Twalen and Merdah are on the cloth.

Twalen is a member of the pantheon of gods and demi-gods. He is a clown in Balinese stories. However, he is older and more powerful than all the Hindu gods, being really the elder brother of Siva. He is much revered in Bali. Merdah is his younger sidekick. His counterpart in Java is  Semar.

Mid 20th century.

Map of Bali.

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