1978 Large Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment

Fantastic fragment of an Indian Trade textile with fantastic deep dyes.

Amazing rich red field with flowers and light blue vines 

Superb hand-spun yarn - see the numerous close-up images.

Collected on a field visit to Toraja, Sulawesi. 

Part of a larger textile of which several fragments were saved from a fire - therefore has burn marks present. Holes and stains. Edges not even. 

54 x 24 cm - over half a meter in length!

For similar examples see

1) The Ashmolean Museum collection

2) The Kelsey Museum collection in Ann Arbor

3) 'Master Dyers to the World' by Mattiebelle Gittinger

Comparison with other similar examples suggests that this is a few centuries old.

[Similar examples have been dated to be from the 13th - 19th century]

This is a rare opportunity to own something as rare and as old as this fantastic little work of art that had traveled from India to Toraja sometime in it's past and then has back to Singapore. 

VERY RARE

Such pieces can be found only in museums.

Frame it and add it to your home-museum collection.