Indigo batik breast cloth with geometric white figures/lines

This batik cloth was commissioned in Java for Sahu, because of the specific diagonal motifs. The cloth was cut lengthwise in half and sewn. The half cloth is then folded in half lengthwise and worn as a 'sash' (selendang) or breast cloth by unmarried young men, or those younger in the genealogical order, over the right shoulder diagonally to left hip. Unmarried or genealogically younger women wear…