Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java Art including foreign artists

including foreign artists

where certain patterns and colors came to exist within the confines of custom and ethnicity

Light general wear to jacket

Publication date: 2017

Dutch-born Indonesian artist Arie Smit

Nini Towok's Spinning Wheel: Cloth and the Cycle of Life in Kerek, Java Art including foreign artistsIn 1976 Dutch textile specialist Rens Heringa first visited Kerek in rural East Java and discovered a region whereunlike the rest of Javathe full range of textiles with woven patterning, as well as the only batik still made on handwoven cotton cloth, continued to be produced for local use. Each type of cloth made in Kerek is created for a specific purposeto be worn by a person of a particular age, social, or residential group; to serve in life cycle