Cotton shoulder cloth

The type of cloth pictured dates back to the 1960s and 1970s and was manufactured in the Silindung Valley and Muara during that time. It can be seen from the dimensions that the more modern version of the surisuri is smaller than the older versions.\Toba Batak cloths are called 'surisuri' when they include the following distinctive features:\ Deep indigo blue colour, once (and still sometimes) obt…