Gorgeous Handwoven Ikat Indigo Textile from Sumba, Indonesia unusual gift for her seemingly endless library of old

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Randall Darwall (1948-2017)

Gorgeous Handwoven Ikat Indigo Textile from Sumba, Indonesia unusual gift for her seemingly endless library of oldI can think of nothing more beautiful to wrap up in than this gorgeous textile indigo dyed cotton Ikat from Sumba, Indonesia, handwoven on a backstop loom. It was made in two panels, which have been sewn together with black thread. The imagery is complex and out of this world, from the primary figures with arms raised, legs spread, delineated rib cages, and giant phallus?!; the whole variety of birds and snakes and other creatures that surround them;