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 is woven with vertical stripes of floral patterns framed by panels of floral and geometric patterns. The ‘kepala’ or head of the cloth is patterned with a simple lattice of squares centred with small four petalled flowers sometimes called ‘bunga cempaka’.
