1976 Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment Patola print

 Fragment of an Indian Trade textile on fine cotton cloth

Patola print created using shades of orange, brown and greenish-blue

The cloth is fine (unlike most of the other fragments in this collection).

Surprisingly also has hand-spun yarn.

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. 

43 x 37 cm

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: Link

2) The Kelsey Museum collection in Ann Arbor: Link

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.