Songket
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songket-168-17437720
title:
Songket
text:
Songket or sungkit is a tenun fabric that belongs to the brocade family of textiles of Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads. The metallic threads stand out against the background cloth to create a shimmering effect. In the weaving process the metallic threads are inserted in between the silk or cotton weft (latitudinal) threads in a technique called supplementary weft weaving technique. Songket is often associa
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Traditional Maritime Southeast Asian woven fabric
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songket
date created:
2006-03-28T13:54:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T05:12:16Z
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