This antique songket was bought in Arab Street, Singapore. Its tassles are made of metal, testament to the age of this piece. It looks great being hung on a carved textile hanger.
Songket textiles are gleaming presige cloths created when hand-loom weavers add metal-wrapped threads to create intricate bands of geometric and botanical designs. Employing a weaving technique that is hundreds of years old in Malaysia, Sumatra, coastal Kalimantan, and east Bali and nearby idlands, songket artistry is a thriving, living, even expanding art form, as a marketable commodity,
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