Author: JASPER, J.E. & MAS PIRNGADIE,
Title: De Weefkunst. Orig. edn.
Description: 's-Gravenhage, Mouton, 1912. large 4°. orig. cloth, title in gilt on front boards, with a thin gilt rule around front panel, title in gilt on spine. Hftitle (verso blank). 373pp. 33 beautiful col. plates and ills. on plates, with captions, 325 text-ills, mainly depicting indonesian females at their looms, many text-figs. illustrating a great variety of indigenous looms, many diagrammes explaining local patterns and motives used, technical glossary of indonesian names of looms & parts of looms, list of plates & ills, glossary of indonesian terms at end, richly decorated initials. Nice woodcut e-libris of P.A. Blaauw pasted inside front boards. [De Inlandsche Kunstnijverheid, II]. Still the most fundamental and exhaustive scientific study describing in detail all aspects of indigenous weaving in dutch colonial Indonesia, e.g. Ikats or Kasuri, local looms, traditional motives and patterns, the use of vegetable dyes, &c. A still unsurpassed scientific study on the subject. The fine colour-plates illustrate fine ikats and other weavings from all over Indonesia. A good copy. Very rare. (some light signs of worming to verso (blank) of front boards, near corner and lower part of inner joint, some other pin-prick worming in margins of first 30pp., three digit acquisition number in ink and a small oval ex-lib. stamp on recte of first blank, some faint spotting to outer panels).

Keywords: weaving ikat kasuri warp weft motives patterns looms science technique handbook history indigenous colonialism indonesia southeast asia handicraft craft sumba sumbawa flores timor java sumatra borneo