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Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery , College of the Holy Cross) by Susan Rodgers; Anne Summerfield; John Summerfield

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Title

Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery , College of the Holy Cross)

Author

Susan Rodgers; Anne Summerfield; John Summerfield

Publisher

University of Washington Press, Distributed f

Pub. Date

Feb 2008

Format

Paperback

Language

English

ISBN

9067183121

Subject

Asian

Original MSRP

$39.00

Description

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. Employing a weaving technique that is hundreds of years old in Malaysia, Sumatra, coastal Kalimantan, and east Bali and nearby islands, songket artistry is a thriving, living, even expanding art form, as this textile type captures the attention of new markets in an Indonesian public culture that is both tradition-minded and obsessed with modernity and middle class success.

Gold Cloths of Sumatra combines the interpretive approaches of textile scholarship and cultural anthropology to explore songket aesthetics, as this remarkable shining gold cloth moves beyond ceremonial contexts to become a "hot item" as a marketable commodity, for sale as a heritage textile and collectible. Chapters focus on contemporary songket craft by Minangkabau, Palembang, and Jambi weavers, set against a background of nineteenth-century songket-weaving excellence. As commodities, present-day Sumatran songkets can show a high level of weaving creativity and technical brilliance, the expression of a resilient art.