Tjanting, Javanese batik tool, 1914
Tjanting, Javanese batik tool, 1914
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- Description
- Tjanting, Javanese batik tool, 1914. The tjanting is a pen-shaped tool used to draw a design with melted wax on cloth; for batik, or wax-resist dyeing. This example has a short tubular handle with a copper applicator tip. The handle is bamboo, and protects the worker from the hot wax. The tip is both a reservoir for the melted wax and a thin hollow spout through which the wax is drawn onto the cloth. The price in Java in 1921, when this group of objects was purchased, was 5 cents, according to the accession file. Accompanied a group of 6 batiks purchased from a Washington DC collector in 1921. The file indicates that the collector had acquired the pieces in Java either in 1894 or 1914.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- tjanting
- date made
- 1914
- ca. 1914
- 1894-1914
- place made
- Indonesia: Javanese
- Physical Description
- bamboo, copper (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 1 in; 15.24 cm x 2.54 cm
- ID Number
- TE.T04328.000
- catalog number
- T04328.00A
- accession number
- 67243
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Textiles
- Javanese Batiks
- Textiles
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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