Title
Skirtcloth
Year/Period
Late 19th-early 20th century
Region
Malay Peninsula
Dimension
Object size: L:198.0 x W:106.3
Accession No.
1997-04223
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Ng
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.
