1945 Pair - Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragments

A pair of two medium-sized rectangular fragments of an Indian Trade textile.

Two sections of a tree 

Probably hand drawn.

Each panel is made up of two sections stitched together.

Superb red Superb hand-spun yarn.

May be from the same original textile as 1942

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. This border fragment is one of the few sections that have been saved from the same fire-struck cloth.

Each is about 45 x 25m 

Comparison with other similar examples suggests that this is pre 1900.

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

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

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.

Such pieces can be found only in museums.

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