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Hip cloth
A richly decorated sarong made of woven cotton. Apart from the fact that it can be determined who wore this sarong, it is also true that the women who wore it are depicted on the cloth itself, amidst countless other figures. Moreover, for these wearers - dancers of questionable morals - it must have been an exception to be immortalized. These kinds of cloths were worn by dancing girls in Semarang …
Date
- voor 1869
Medium
- Material: materials for decoration, application and technical finishing
- Material: cotton
- material for decoration, application and finishing
- cotton (fiber)
- Cotton
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Creation date
- 1800
- 1800/1825
Provenance
- 1869-08-01
- Schenking
Identifier
- RV-101-22
- http://mint-projects.image.ntua.gr/europeana-fashion/595649
Is part of
- Europeana XX: Century of Change
Is related to
- bone (material)
- wax
- ambergris
Year
- 1800
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-03-31T16:16:09.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2021-10-20T13:51:01.552Z