This songket supplementary weft textile is known as a ‘kain samping’, a type of short waist wrap or sarong worn by men over their trousers. It was woven with a relatively simple geometric pattern of diamond and triangles with a head panel of ‘pucuk rebong’ or ‘bamboo shoots’ interspersed with flowers. Songket cloths such as this in which little of the centralfield shows are called ‘songket penuh’ or full songket.
