Product Description

Sumbawa Tube Sarong

Material: Cotton, silver threads, indigo
Style: Sumbawa, Indonesia
Size: Length 175 cm, Width 101 cm
Order Number: MHSSTS1

Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast.

In spite of the Islamic influence and arguments over whether living creatures should be represented in art, the Muslim women of Sumbawa created cotton and silver thread textiles with imaginative and fanciful designs, such as this one with human figures.

The sarong would have belonged to a noble family and the patterns caem from a civiisation that predated Islam.

Very good condition.

There is a similar one (and the only one we know of) in La Fibre des Ancetres, Tresors textiles d’Indonesie de la collection Georges Breguet, Infolio Editions, Musee d”ethnographie de Geneve, 2006, page 146.

19th – early 20th century.

Map of Sumbawa, Indonesia.

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