FABRIC OF ENCHANTMENT. Batik from the North Coast of Java, from the McCabe Elliott Collection at the Los Angeles County Museum.

Los Angeles: 1996. 240 pages, 142 color and 102 b/w photographs, 10 pages of drawings, 2 douple-page, color maps. Cloth cover. Item #3240

A spectacular collection of batiks from Java’s north coast, a region known as the Pasisir, was rcently donated to and exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum. This catalogue of the exhibition illustrates the collection in expecially lush color photographs, and details each textile in the collection and provides the history and usage of the textiles from this area that has been relatively ignored by batik scholars.

Price: $80.00