Research Catalog

Title

Textiles for this world and beyond : treasures from insular Southeast Asia / Mattiebelle Gittinger.

Author

Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.)

Publication

London : Scala ; Washington, DC : In association with the Textile Museum, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Gittinger, Mattiebelle.

Description

136 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), 1 map; 29 cm.

Summary

"Textiles for This World and Beyond: Treasures from Insular Southeast Asia explores the role that textiles play in Indonesian and Malaysian daily life. Textiles sometimes illustrate the transitions that take place at important life ceremonies. Often patterned in large geometric forms, the textiles used for funerals and other rites and ceremonies to appease the spiritual world are among the most dramatic made in insular Southeast Asia. The striking motifs, materials, and patterns of other textiles communicate class standing or membership in a particular ethnic group."--Jacket.

Subject

• Batik > Southeast Asia > Exhibitions
• Textile Museum (Washington, D.C.) > Exhibitions
• Textile crafts > Southeast Asia > Exhibitions
• Textile crafts
• Textile fabrics > Southeast Asia > Exhibitions
• Textile fabrics

Note

• "For the exhibition Textiles for the world and beyond: treasures from insular Southeast Asia, March 3-August 7, 2005 (batik) and April 1-September 18, 2005"--T.p. verso.
• Works from the collections of the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 132-134) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. The messages of color, pattern, and technique -- 3. Sumatra and the Malay world -- 4. Batik in this world -- 5. The lesser Sunda Islands -- 6. The Toraja of Sulawesi -- 7. The Iban, Iban-related peoples, and their neighbors.

ISBN

• 1857593766 (pbk.)
• 9781857593761

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library