Plain weave white cotton cloth sample; step one in the Javanese batik process, 1915. This cloth is industrially produced and imported from Europe to Java, where it is used as the basis for the production of batiks. Approximately 10" x 12". First in a set of 14 process samples together with 22 finished items made by prisoners in Java for display at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. Purchased by the US National Museum for the Division of Textiles from the Netherlands East Indies Commission at the close of the Exposition.