| Collected from a village grandmother in 1984, who told me that several of these kain cepuk had been 'separated' because of something to do with a child- perhaps which had died; (half was buried and/or burned with the child?).
The first (on the left) of these is the classic and traditionally most powerful cloth, the kamben cepuk 'cendana kawi'.The next a more idiomatic expression, possibly derived from the kamben cepuk 'padma'.
The third is a strange form of cepuk associated with the care and protection of an infant.
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