Cloth Fragment
2016-20-24
From: Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
Object Number | 2016-20-24 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands |
Manufacture Location | Iloilo Province | Panay |
Date Made | Before 1904 |
Section | Oceanian |
Materials | Abaca | Cotton |
Technique | Hand Woven |
Description | Length of cloth woven from abaca (banana fiber) and cotton. Squares outlined in blue, brown, white cotton thread. Plain weave. Torn in many places, holes. Tags attached read: (1) “SINAMAY CLOTH / Made of abaca and cotton. / Woven by hand. / Used for making clothing. / Philippine Islands.” (2) “Sinamay / abacá + cotton / Santa Barbara, Iloilo / P. 9.” In the Philippines, fabric woven from abaca is known as sinamay. Sinamay was used in the 1800s to make a variety of garments, such as ankle-length skirts called saya and wrap-around skirts called tapis. Displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. |
Length | 50.6 cm |
Width | 40.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016 |
Other Number | 1994.x.13636 - Other Number |
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