Songket textile
The Songket of Malaysia and Indonesia takes its name from the Malay menyongket, ‘embroidered with gold or silver threads’. The base cloth is often silk, with contrast in colour and texture provided by the supplementary weft pattern in metallic threads. The geometric weft ‘floats’ are woven over thre...
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Songket textile [electronic resource]. |
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| Format: | Physical Object |
| Language: | English |
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[20th century].
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SOAS Digital Library.
REGIONS. FORMATS. ARTE. RSEA. ISOAS. |
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