Old Burgundy Red Damask Embroidery Brocade Songket Sarung Textile Royal Sash Runner with Metallic Gold Threads belonging to Balinese Nobility royalty Hand woven with Handspun Silk in a beautiful pattern from Negara, Bali 32.5"x12" (SG48) 80yrs
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Museum Quality, Traditional Woman Wedding Brocade Songket Textile, Once Belonged to Balinese Royalty / Nobility. Burgundy Embroidery with Metallic Gold Threads, Handwoven with Handspun Silk and Cotton Blend.
SIZE: 32.5" x 12"
COLLECTED IN NEGARA
Over 80 years old
It is old and has around 25 small holes and a part of it was woven with a slightly different burgundy color, looks like it is in fine condition otherwise.
From our private collection accumulated over 35 years
All handmade from the hand spinning to the hand weaving to the hand embroidered needleworkHard to find today especially older ones like this one
Handmade dowry textiles are passed from one generation to the next and used mostly for ceremonial purposes because of their worth. They attest to the wealth of the owner.
It was made on a small loom and consists of 2 pieces sewn together to make a larger, the seam is seen in the middle.
Songket is a fabric that belongs to the family of brocade textiles. 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. The term songket comes from the Malay Indonesian word sungkit, which means "to hook". It has something to do with the method of songket making; to hook and pick a group of threads, and then slip the gold threads in it. The word menyongket means "to embroider with gold or silver threads".
Songket is a luxury product traditionally worn during ceremonial occasions as sarong, shoulder cloths or head ties. Tanjak or Songket headdresses were worn at the courts of the Malay Sultanates and nobility. Traditionally women and adolescent girls wove songket and traditionally-patterned textiles embodied a system of interpretable emblems to the few that were able to create them and wear them.
Few costumes in the world have the dignified elegance of the ceremonial costume of a noblewoman: the underskirt dragging on the ground in a train of silk and gold; the torso, bound from the hips to the armpits; first is a strong bulang, a strip of cloth covered by a sabuk, another strip of silk overlaid, and gold leaf and gold plugs through her ears.
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