Handwoven IKAT Textile Sumba Indonesia Blue Cream Horses Serger Foot European-style floral hand-painted by Anna

European-style floral hand-painted by Anna Bond

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Handwoven IKAT Textile Sumba Indonesia Blue Cream Horses Serger Foot European-style floral hand-painted by AnnaThis refined handwoven IKAT textile from Sumba, Indonesia is a beautiful example of naturalistic Sumbanese weaving softer in palette and more painterly in character than many of its boldly geometric counterparts. The central band showcases a procession of horses rendered in soft periwinkle blue on a cream ground, each animal depicted beneath a canopy of radiating tree forms likely stylized versions of the Sumbanese tree of life, a motif representing