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Ikat from Pantar, Solor Archipelago, Indonesia
 

347 Solor Archipelago, Pantar


Kafate (sarong)microscope


Locale: Collected in Lamahule village, a hamlet (dusun) in Bakalang, the capital of the East Pantar subdistrict (Pantarese speaking people), made by Alurung (Alorese) speaking people.
Period: Late 20th c.
Yarn: Cotton, hand-spun, medium, and pinstripes in commercial cotton
Technique: Warp ikat
Panels: 3
Design: Kafate or the type Tenapi Bulohing (meaning three panel sarong) of a rare type called tenapi watola, the midfield of which is a clear patola-emulation. This type is also found on Alor, in a more brownish colour palette, and there also rare as it is reserved for royalty and those closely associated with royalty. All the ikat work was done in hand-spun cotton and natural dyes. The cloth was given a touch of chic by the insertion of a small number of accent stripes in commercial cotton. The colour palette is very similar to that of the tiny Island of Ternate, which lies between Pantar and Alor. This type of sarong was clearly modelled on a type of basta found on Pantar, and presumably also on Alor, a detail of which is shown below.

Comment: [PHOTOGRAPHY PROVISIONAL] .
Background: Chapters on Solor Archipelago and Pantar.
Sources: No other example known from Pantar. A very similar Alorese watola sarong from the Kinga Lauren collection is depicted in Ten Hoopen, Ikat Textiles of the Indonesian Archipelago, p. 365, and shown below.

  
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