Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity

by Susan Rodgers, John Summerfield, Anne Summerfield

Songket textiles are gleaming prestige cloths created when hand-loom weavers add metal-wrapped threads across the weft to build up intricate motif bands of geometric and botanical designs. The supplementary wefts are gold-wrapped silk or fine cotton yarns; silver-wrapped threads are also found in some of Indonesia's old songket weaving regions. Employing a weaving technique that is hundreds of years old in Malaysia, Sumatra, coastal Kalimantan, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9067183121
• ISBN13: 9789067183123
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 10.9"