Indonesia, late 19th or early 20th century
Cotton and silk velvet worked with lametta couched over string padding (tekat timbul), and laid flat and couched in diaper patterns (sulam songket); metal purl cutwork and S-ing; glass seed beads stitched one-by-one; edges bound with needle-weaving in metal thread
10 x 17 x 1 cm
Courtesy of Jan Smith, Dalmeny, N. S. W., Australia
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