Title
Skirtcloth
Year/Period
1900-1930
Region
Kelantan or Trengganu, Malay Peninsula
Material
Dimension
Object size: L98.0 x W94.0 cm
Accession No.
2000-03527
Collection of
This 'songket' textile features the 'pucuk rebung' (bamboo shoot) motif in the 'kepala' (centre) and 'rantai' or chain patterns rendered as broad straight interlocking patterns.'Songket', sometimes dubbed ‘the cloth of gold’ is made using either gold or silver wrapped threads as a supplementary weft, the horizontal threads in the weave, woven in between the regular wefts. It was traditionally strictly reserved for aristocrats in most Malay communities. It has distinctive regional styles and is worn as a symbol of their regional identity.
