Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia Penerbit: Gajah Gallery

Penerbit: Gajah Gallery

Madura dan Sumatera

marriages or births of various members of the House of Orange-Nassau

the aristocracy

Valerie Hector

Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia Penerbit: Gajah GalleryLocated between the two maritime routes connecing East and West Asia, Sumatra, the fabled Isle of Gold, was for centuries the source for much of the world's pepper. In the southern tip of Sumatra, the peoples of Lampung, or "Pepperland," poured the profits of their trade into ceremonial materials and adornments. The ornate tubular sarongs known as tapis were hand woven from cotton and silk threads, colored with ancestral dye recipes, embellished with