1941 Pair - Antique Indian Trade Textile Print Toraja Fragment speciality_kamasan Antique heavy tribal silver sunburst

Antique heavy tribal silver sunburst bangles

Difficult to get the correct colors in photos so I have taken the pictures in different lights

Antique Ikat from Timor

This is WARP and WEFT ikat - popularly known as double Ikat

Note the use of yellow & green lines in the weaving contrasting against the undyed-white woven field

1941 Pair - Antique Indian Trade Textile Print Toraja Fragment speciality_kamasan Antique heavy tribal silver sunburstExquisitie Pair of border (pallu or end panel) fragments of an Indian Trade textile. Has the triangular pattern seen in Batik textiles today. Appears to have small block stamp print or stencil print. Amazing yarn and colors. [One side appears to be a bit more faded compared to the other] Collected on a field visit to Toraja, Sulawesi. This fragment has been saved from a fire therefore has burn marks present. Holes and stains. Edges not even.