VERY RARE EARLY 1900’S ANTIQUE TEXTILE COLLECTIBLE: BALINESE IDER-IDER HANDMADE COLORFUL EMBROIDERY ONCE ADORNING A SACRED TEMPLE RARE CANOPY DECORATION FRAMED IN UNIQUE HAND PAINTED FRAME 26 ¾” X 12 ½” DESIGNER COLLECTOR HOME DÉCOR WALL ART

FINISHED SIZE IS 26 ¾” X 12 ½”

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BALI ANTIQUE CEREMONIAL IDER-IDER TEMPLE CANOPY EMBROIDERY

FROM THE EARLY 1900’S

IN GOOD SHAPE BUT FOR TOP STAIN

THIS IS A VERY OLD PIECE IN GOOD CONDITION THAT WAS ONCE HANGING FROM A TEMPLE'S EAVE

PART OF A CEREMONIAL TRADITIONAL DECORATIVE CANOPY

UNIQUE

Please inspect carefully to be satisfied, this is a very old textile 

Once decorating  a Balinese Temple

CUSTOM FRAMED IN A HAND PAINTED FRAME WITH AN ACID-FREE MAT (MADE TO ENHANCE THIS RARE FABRIC) 

FRAME BY ARTIST DOMINIQUE RICE) 

 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.  

FINISHED SIZE IS 26 ¾” X 12 ½”

ITEM IS ONE OF A KIND

ITEM DFBE1

SUCH PIECES ARE VERY HARD TO COME BY

(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) 

This type of embroidery was made by women in the area of Jembrana, East Bali. The craft of embroidery in Bali developed in the early to mid 1900’s to follow, in Kamasan style, the traditional painting of the time.

The colorful motifs keep their boldness and power although the cloth itself is stained from the elements in one place.

(Reference: Joseph Fischer , Story Cloths of Bali, Berkeley 2004)

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

Balinese informants explain that this cloth mainly acts as a base for offerings and as decoration of shrines and altars. It 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, it  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 these embroideries 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 such textile collectible used to hang. 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

SORRY THE PHOTOS ARE NOT CRISP AND CLEAR ENOUGH, FOR SOME REASON BETWEEN THE GLARE OF THE GLASS AND THE DIFFICULTY FOCUSING, I COULD NOT TAKE A GREAT CRISP AND CLEAR PHOTO NO MATTER HOW HARD I TRIED.

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