Batik, Traditional Textiles of Indonesia. Rudolf Smend
Contributors
Inger McCabe Elliott
Annegret Haake
Donald Harper
Jonathan Hope
Brigitte Khan Majlis
Rudolf Smend
Antje Soléau
Haryani Winotosastro
Maria Wrońska-Friend
Captions
Maria Wrońska-Friend
TUTTLE Publishing
Tokyo | Rutland, Vermont | Singapore
Galerie Smend
Front cover: detail, no. 18, pp. 46–7
Back cover (by row from top left):
1. detail, no. 58, p. 112
2. photo, p. 115
3. detail, no. 49, p. 102
4. detail, no. 47, p. 100
7. photo, p. 121
Spine: detail, no. 20, pp. 50–1
Front flap: reverse side, no. 57, p. 111
Front endpaper: detail, no. 34, p. 80
Back endpaper: detail, no. 37, p. 81
p. 1: detail, no. 35, p. 80
p. 2: detail, no. 36, p. 81
pp. 4–5: detail, no. 67, pp. 130–1
pp. 6–7: detail, no. 56, pp. 109
p. 175: detail, no. 6, pp. 22–3
Contents
From the Rudolf Smend & Donald Harper Batik Collections
Contributions
My Introduction to the World of Batik
Donald Harper
Batik and I
Jonathan Hope
Attracted by Javanese Culture
Annegret Haake
Batik: Fabled Cloth of Java
Inger McCabe Elliott
A Prophetic Gift
Brigitte Khan Majlis
Chance, Fate or Magic?
Rudolf Smend
Back to His Roots
Antje Soléau
Javanese Batik to the World
Maria Wrońska-Friend
Growing up With Batik
Haryani Winotosastro
Preface
Thanks to the Museum Tekstil in Jakarta, a new publication on batik is being launched.
In 2000, I published a catalogue entitled Batik: Javanese and Sumatran Batiks from Courts and Palaces. His Highness Sultan Hamengku Buwono X and his wife Queen Hamas were kind enough to travel all the way from Yogyakarta to Germany to officially open the exhibition at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum in Cologne.
In 2006, the Deutsches Textilmuseum (German Textile Museum) in Krefeld invited me to display batik from my collection. The occasion was to mark one hundred years since the very first batik exhibition ever held in Germany—in Krefeld—had taken place.
In June 2015, the Museum Tekstil in Jakarta celebrated the opening of an exhibition entitled Highlights from the North Coast to Bimasakti, which presented pieces from Brigitte Willach and my collections. The planning and preparation for this event led to this, my third catalogue.
The main reason for