Cloth
2016-20-26
From: Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands
Curatorial Section: Oceanian
| Object Number | 2016-20-26 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Philippine Islands | Visayan Islands |
| Manufacture Location | Iloilo Province | Panay |
| Date Made | Before 1904 |
| Section | Oceanian |
| Materials | Abaca | Cotton |
| Technique | Woven |
| Description | Length of cloth woven from abaca (banana fiber) and white cotton. Yellow and white plaid. Plain Weave. Tags attached read: (1) “SINAMAY CLOTH / Made of abaca and cotton. / Woven by hand. / Used for making clothing. / Philippine Islands.” (2) “Sinamay / abacá + cotton / Laua-an / Iloilo / Panay / P. 9.” In the Philippines, fabric woven from abaca is known as sinamay. Sinamay was used in the 1800s to make a variety of garments, such as ankle-length skirts called saya and wrap-around skirts called tapis. Displayed at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis in 1904. |
| Length | 64.6 cm |
| Width | 38.4 cm |
| Credit Line | Gift of the Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2016 |
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