Patterned Splendour
Textiles Presented on Javanese Metal and Stone Sculptures, Eighth to Fifteenth Centuries

Lesley S. Pullen (Author)

9789814881845

Paperback / softback, published 30 April 2021

328 pages
27.6 x 20.3 x 1.7 cm, 1.054 kg

There exist numerous free-standing figurative sculptures produced in Java between the eighth and fifteenth centuries whose dress displays detailed textile patterns. This surviving body of sculpture, carved in stone and cast in metal, varying in both size and condition, remain 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. Hence this publication will contribute to our knowledge of the textiles in circulation at that time by including the first comprehensive record of this body of sculpture, together with their textile patterns classified into a typology of styles within each chapter.