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Metal: Javanese Stamps
Metal: Javanese Stamps
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24 Plates
FIELD
MUSEUM
OF NATURAL HISTORY
Chicago
1924
designs.
of the designs.
money orders
DA VIES
DIRECTOK
FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
CHICAGO
U.S.A.
FIELD
2,
PLATE
NEARLY
i,
ACTUAL
SIZE.
24 Plates
FIELD
MUSEUM
OF NATURAL HISTORY
Chicago
1924
only
is
this true,
but the designs used have been carefully copied by the man-
ufacturers of Europe and Japan, and a large proportion of the so-called batiks
on the market
in
Java
itself
are merely
machine-made
prints.
The
old batik
designs, however, are usually very accurately reproduced, just as they are in
the metal stamps. Only the common repeating designs were made in stamps, however, and many foreign elements were introduced, especially from Chinese
sources.
The
made from
obtained in Java by Dr. George A. Dorsey and preserved in Field Museum. The designs, including that on the title-page, are all actual size, except the one on
which had to be somewhat reduced. Many of the designs are imperfect, owing to injury to the thin metal strips and wires. The best books on batik work and designs are Rouffaer and Juynboll, "Die indische Batikkunst und ihre Geschichte," and Jasper and Pirngadie. "De Batikkunst" (in Dutch). Illustrations of batik cloth are given in a recent French portfolio of plates, "Les Batiks de Java." Specimens of batik are
Plate
II,
Museum.
FIG.
1.
FIG.
in
2.
The impression
Fig.
stamp
is
shown
The impression
Fig.
stamp
is
shown
in
Plate
XX.
Plate VIII.
Slightly reduced.
Slightly reduced.
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PLATE
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VII.
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JAVANESE BATIK DESIGNS FROM METAL STAMPS.
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2,
PLATE
VIII
in Fig. 2 is
used in the triangular or tootlied design shown on Plate XXIV. this impression was made is ilhistrated in Fig. 2, Page 2.
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PLATE
IX.
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PLATE
X.
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of the
stamp.
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ANTHROPOLOGY,
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2,
PLATE XVMI
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2,
PLATE XIX.
of tlie
of
which
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given in Fig.
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Plate
XX.
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how
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shown
in Plate
XXII,
illustrating
how
they
fit
together.
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2,
PLATE
XXII.
of the efifect as
an all-over design.
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PLATE
shown.
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2,
PLATE XXIV.
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ACTUAL
SIZE.
This shows ordinary stamp and brush work. The thin lines of the triangular designs and borders have been made with stamps, while over the broad lines and light areas the wax has been put on with the brush.