This batik sarong signed by Van Zuylen has a floral print in natural dyes against a salmon pinkish background.Eliza van Zuylen (1863–1947) was one of the most famous and prolific of the Eurasian batik makers in Pekalongan. The daughter of a Dutch soldier and a Eurasian woman from Batavia (Jakarta), she started making batik after moving to Pekalongan in 1888. She invented the motif of rows of large floral bouquets in sarongs, and it remains a standard batik design. By the 1920s her clients were solely Peranakan. She owned the largest workshop in town and it survived the Depression and continued until World War II. The business was sold to a Chinese batik maker upon her death.
