Gorgeous Handwoven Ikat Indigo Textile from Sumba, Indonesia brown and red jewelry and apparel

jewelry and apparel

not including woven hanging loops at top or fringe at bottom

and believe it dates from the 1960's

Very charming

arranged in a precise geometrical formation and glued to a solid wood panel

Gorgeous Handwoven Ikat Indigo Textile from Sumba, Indonesia brown and red jewelry and apparelI can think of nothing more beautiful to wrap up in than this gorgeous textile indigo dyed cotton Ikat from Sumba, Indonesia, handwoven on a backstop loom. It was made in two panels, which have been sewn together with black thread. The imagery is complex and out of this world, from the primary figures with arms raised, legs spread, delineated rib cages, and giant phallus?!; the whole variety of birds and snakes and other creatures that surround them;