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Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity
Gold Cloths of Sumatra Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity
Author: Susan Rodgers, Anne Summerfield, John Summerfield
Songket textiles are gleaming prestige cloths created when hand-loom weavers add metal-wrapped threads across the weft to build up intricate motif bands of geometric and botanical designs. The supplementary wefts are gold-wrapped silk or fine cotton yarns; silver-wrapped threads are also found in some of Indonesia's old songket-weaving regions. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9789067183123
ISBN-10: 9067183121
Pages: 137
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Publisher: Kitlv Press
Book Type: Paperback
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