1910 SOLD Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment review_fragment Perhaps the most important materials

Perhaps the most important materials owned by families were textiles

and strong spirit motifs such as this were restricted to those in the upper echelons of society

The script is an older form of Sanskrit called Pracalit and has been written in an extraordinarily-artistic hand unlike many such manuscripts that are scripted in novice handwriting

Estimated to be from the 1950s

while Tampans were created for every son's family unit

1910 SOLD Antique Indian Trade Textile Toraja Fragment review_fragment Perhaps the most important materialsFantastic fragment of an Indian Trade textile. Has vines and flowers The border remains uncolored and appears to be wholly hand drawn The field appears to be hand drawn as well and colored using small block stamp print but am not informed enough about the technique so please make your own judgement. Collected on a field visit to Toraja, Sulawesi. This fragment has been saved from a fire therefore has burn marks present. Holes and stains. Edges not