EditorialThe Farehouse restaurant inside Taylors Mill, a former fabric dyeing and bleaching mill, in Taylors, S.C., Dec. 2, 2021. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialHead cloth (kain kepala), Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, A square scarf or headcloth (kain kepala) with design in brown, blue, and white on black ground. Much use of small white dots. Conventionalized bird and anima...
EditorialSarong, Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Batik sarong in red, blue, yellow, and cream color. Shows an all-over 'banji' motif (swastika variation) with butterflies around a large-scale floral pattern ('buketan' motif),...
EditorialSquare, Medium: silk Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Silk square in black, dark blue, brown, and cream-white. Shows four 'wayang' figures facing diagonally toward center, one of which has a different pattern on his sarong. Outer bo...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Batik textile, probably a shoulder cloth (selendang) or breast cloth (kemben) in dark blue, brown, and cream-white. Shows an all-over pattern of the 'ship of the dead' motif, ...
EditorialJito Tenno (Workers Dyeing Cloth), from Hyakunin Isshu ubaga Etoki (The Hundred Poems Explained by the Nurse), Katsushika Hokusai, 1760 1849, Woodblock print (ukiyo-e) on mulberry paper (washi), ink with color, Scene shows workers in various stages of ...
EditorialSample book, New York Watering Company, American, Medium: paper, cotton, silk, metallic thread, Accordion-pleated stiff paper folder with front board cover with dark imitation pebbled leather printed in gold, 'Compliments of the New York Watering Co., ...
EditorialKain panjang (long sarong), Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Long sarong (kain panjang) printed with an all-over pattern of sparsely used flower and leaf designs in white-dotted indigo blue and brown on a light tan gr...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: cut loops of supplementary warp pile (velvet) in a plain weave foundation; tied-resist dyeing in the warp (ikat) Label: silk cut velvet, warp-dyed (ikat), Small piece of woven velvet with a checkerboard pattern of alter...
EditorialSquare textile, Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Cotton square, possibly a head cloth (kain kepala), in dark blue, light brown, and white. Dark blue ground showing numerous white dots known as 'gabah sinawur' or 'grai...
EditorialHead cloth (kain kepala), Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Square textile (may be a head cloth or 'kain kepala') with symmetrical 'mirong' motif (wings of Garuda, mount of Vishnu) on ground covered with crayfish, bird...
EditorialSarong, Medium: cotton Technique: wax resist dyeing (batik) on plain weave, Cotton batik sarong in white, dark brown, and green. All-over large scale floral pattern and butterflies ('buketan' motif). Scalloped floral borders (a North Javanese batik inn...
EditorialFylfot motif, Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), Fylfot (sayagata) is a popular geometric design that was called 'saya' during the Edo era. This pattern is a standard map symbol for Buddhist temples in Japa...
Editorialsample book, ca. 1930, paper, ink, wool, General: 23 x 18.5 x 2.3cm (230 x 185 x 23mm), Recipe book by the Zaalberg Company in Leiden. The book, which is bound, contains a black cover with a label pasted on which is printed and crossed out HIGHER TEXTI...