Author: MUSSCHENBROEK, S.C.I.W. VAN
Title: Iets over de Inlandsche wijze van Katoen-verven. (Roodverven, bruinverven, blauwverven, enz.) op Midden-Java, en over de daarbij gebruikte grondstoffen. Naar javaansche bronnen verwerkt en met aanteekeningen voorzien. First (& only) edn.
Description: Leiden, Brill, 1878. sm. 8°., orig. printed wraps. Hftitle (verso blank). 68pp. References, appendix listing and describing batiks in holdings of the Haarlem city based Colonial Museum, errata and corrections printed on last unnumbered leave (recto/verso), publ. list printed on lower outer wrap. Dutch language scholarly essy, an inquiry into the art of Indonesian vegetable dyes applied to cotton by local javanese dyers, working in the batik industry. craftsmen. Inludes information after oral sources. Very good copy.

Keywords: java javanese dyes deying indigo essay treatise textiles vegetable dyes nineteenth century colonialism crafts indonesia southeast asia 19thc. plantenstoffen blauwverven