This ceremonial cloth or ‘tampan’ depicts an amazing iconography of ancestor or deity figures sheltered in a magnificent house-like probably represent an ancestral shrine, a motif commonly found on tampans. Ship imagery in Lampung textiles symbolises a spiritual vessel that carries the community through transitions in life. Ceremonial cloths could be used as gifts, covers for ritual offerings or pillows for the deceased. It is normally woven using the supplementary weft technique, where additional horizontal threads create patterns over the top of the ground weave.
