1974 Pair - Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragments Patola Print

A pair of two medium-sized Patola Printed fragments of an Indian Trade textile collected in Toraja

Probably block printed

Superb red Superb hand-spun yarn - see the amazing details in the close-up photos

Heavily faded from usage outdoors

Collected on a field visit to Toraja, Sulawesi.

This fragment has been saved from a fire, Holes and stains. Edges not even. 

The larger one is about 40 x 27.5 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

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.