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VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2
VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2

VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: OLD BALINESE HAND WOVEN HAND EMBROIDERED LAMAK USED TO DRESS TEMPLE STATUES CANOPY OR EAVE DURING RITUAL RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES GOLD THREADS FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 27x 12 ½” DFBE2

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ABOUT 100 YEARS OLD

RARE CEREMONIAL TRADITIONAL CANOPY

Belonged to Balinese nobility

Produced in Jembrana Regency between 1890 and 1920 by noblewomen and restricted to the nobility.

This rare antique Lamak embroidery  is a ritual object, an intermediary bridge or path between heaven and earth, a spirit lure of sorts

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BALI ANTIQUE TEMPLE CEREMONIAL CANOPY VALENCE

GOLD THREAD EMBROIDERIES

FROM THE EARLY 1900’S

THIS IS A VERY OLD PIECE THAT WAS ONCE HANGING AS A TRADITIONAL TEMPLE DECORATION, UNIQUE WITH HAND WOVEN FABRIC BEAD TASSELS AND GOLD THREAD EMBROIDERIES. 

          CUSTOM FRAMED IN A HAND PAINTED FRAME  MADE TO ENHANCE THIS RARE FABRIC, BY ARTIST DOMINIQUE RICE, ACID FREE MAT

SIZE IS: 26 ¾” X 12 ½”

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SUCH PIECES ARE VERY HARD TO COME BY TODAY
ONE-OF-A-KIND

 

Balinese informants explain that a “Lamak” mainly acts as a base for offerings and as decoration of shrines and altars. The Lamak dresses up the sacred places for offerings, it acts as an invitation, a sign of welcome for deities, ancestors, spirits and other invisible (niskala) beings. Moreover, the lamak  shows the invisible beings the way to the shrines where the offerings are. And this is important, because should these places not be clearly visible for the gods, the ritual will not be successful since the purpose of this cloth in a ritual is to attract the invisible beings to the offerings in the shrine.

One of the rituals during which Lamaks are very prominent is the festival of Galungan, a recurring ritual of purification and thanksgiving for which the ancestors are invited to come down from heaven to visit their families, this is celebrated all over Bali. In front of the entrance to every house the Balinese erect a penjor, a decorated bamboo pole with a small shrine attached to it, from which a Lamak like this one used to hang in the past. Another ritual is the celebration of the anniversary of a temple, for which the deities of that specific temple are invited to descend from heaven. All shrines in the temple were then decorated with a Lamak. The lamaks of today are completely different from the old ones such as this, they take less time to create.

The religion of the Hindu Balinese, Agama Hindu Dharma, is a unique form of Hinduism that is the result of creative contact between indigenous Balinese thought and practices and Indian thought and practices that came to Bali over a period of more than a thousand years, in former times mostly via Java but more recently directly from India itself.

SORRY THE PHOTOS ARE NOT CRISP AND CLEAR ENOUGH

I COULD NOT TAKE A GREAT CRISP AND CLEAR PHOTO NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED. 

PHOTOS WERE HARD TO TAKE, YOU CAN SEE SOME GLARE ON THE GLASS BUT IT IS JUST A REFLECTION, THE ITEM AND FRAME ARE FINE.

Belonged to Balinese nobility. 

 Colorful threads' embroideries done by hand. In great shape for its age, we were told it was close to 100 yrs old by the owner.  

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