Author: LANGEWIS, L. & F.A. WAGNER,
Title: Decorative Art in Indonesian Textiles.
Description: Amsterdam, Van der Peet, 1964. Small folio, cloth, pictorial coloured upper cover (:) example of a Warp Ikat (Eastern Sumba), 67pp. of text, some text-ills., sketch-map, incl. a bibliography, notes on textile decoration techniques, acknowledgement of plates, classification-table, full-p., of plates, extensive descriptions of the plates. 14 very fine coloured plates, numerous ills. on tog. 216 plain plates o.o.t., short text to the ills. on plates. Standard-work on the subject, discussing & showing ikats, batiks, embroidery, painting, shell & bead work, etc. Copy of the so-called De-Luxe-edn., with the original thick plastic lettered dj. in order to protect the upper cover. Rare & difficult to locate, in MINT condition.

Keywords: batik