Patterned Splendour : : Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures; Eighth to Fifteenth Century / / Lesley Pullen.

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• VerfasserIn: Pullen, Lesley,
• MitwirkendeR: Miksic, John N.,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (308 p.)

There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress display detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remains in archaeological sites and museums in Indonesia and worldwide. The equatorial climate of Java has precluded any textiles from this period surviving. Therefore this book argues the textiles represented on these sculptures offer a unique insight into the patterned splendour of the textiles in circulation during this period. This volume contributes to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with the textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Drawing and Photograph Credits -- List of Maps -- Orthography -- 1. Background -- 2. Javanese Textile Traditions -- 3. Central and Early East Java: Metal and Stone Sculpture from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century -- 4. Kediri and Singhasāri: Stone Sculpture from the Eleventh to the Fourteenth Century -- 5. Majapahit: Stone Sculpture from the Fourteenth to the Fifteenth Century -- 6. Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Appendices -- Glossary -- Extended Glossary of Textile Terms -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author and Illustrator