Woman's Tube Skirt

Textile

Tracing Patterns Foundation

Name/Title

Woman's Tube Skirt

Entry/Object ID

2024.4.18

Description

A four-panel cotton tube skirt with dark indigo ground, warp ikat band and narrow bands of warp-float patterning in red, green, orange, and red. Small diamond motifs in supplementary-weft wrapping technique (buna) decorate both end of the skirt.

Acquisition

Accession

2024.4

Source or Donor

Teresa Lemon Shepro

Credit Line

Gift of Teresa Lemon Shepro

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown Maker

Time Period

1st half of 20th Century

Textile Details

Technique

Plain Weave, Warp Ikat, Warp-float Patterning (Sotis), Supplementary-Weft Wrapping (Buna)

Ethnography

Cultural Region

Island

Timor

Country

Indonesia

Dimensions

Width

56 cm

Length

188 cm

Material

Cotton

Provenance

Notes

Acquired 1993 Atambua area Timor