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IKAT FROM WETAR, INDONESIA GALLERY
- 268 WETAR
Sarong. Warp ikat, discontinuous supplementary weft.. Early 20th C. . Cloth was collected on Wetar, where ikat died out around 1850, but which has close relations with the courts of Timor and Savu, Raijua. Cloth probably made on Babar or Tanimbar. If on Tanimbar, then probably on Larat.
Wetar, which pledged to stop weaving
[Stub, to be elaborated.]
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Literature
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Map showing Wetar in its neigbourhood
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