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Now I'm gonna Tell you about traditional cloth in PALEMBANG,and it's call Songket Palembang.
Sewet Songket or cloth Songket is usual cloth used or worn as woman clothes underside bandage. Usually this sewet pals up with kemban or shawl.
Material sewet this songket woven accurately us with silk yarn material. Individuality songket Palembang lays in its, the softness and grace is very uppermost and its the motif unlike cloth motif songket from the other area.
Therefore sewet this songket made with smooth material and high art hence the price enough expensive. Usually is used periodically at the time of celebration of marriage.
Clothes songket completetlly worn by pengaten, usually with Aesan Gede ( highness)Aesan Pengganggon ( Paksangko) Aesan.Shawl Mantri Aesan Gandek ( Gandik)etcetera.
A lef of weave cloth songket from Palembang,has many meanings, and has history value.This possible cloth as ommission of ancestors the owner woven during one years, possibly as dowry, possibly as highness cloth of custom pengantin , possibly as collection object of valuable family, and still many again other possibilities.
Weave cloth songket this Palembang, very attractive, traced its the history, its the meaning, and its the making technique. If we observe its the typical colour, and its the beautiful decorative motif, surely we are having conclusion that this songket made with skill, ketelatenan, kesabaran, and of high creativeness.

Like other area weave art in our nusantara, cloth songket this unknown Palembang precisely when starts done. For cloth, originally is applied as component of bark base, then leaves mesh, and last is planted cotton to be made yarn as component of weave cloth base. Palembang which located in island Sumatra part of this South ahead becomes center empire of Sriwijaya becoming entrance various cultures from manca state. Originally comes Portuguese, then nation of last India of nation of Chinese. At seventh century until eleventh century Masehi empire of glorious medium Sriwijaya - its glorious with its the crowded port. Except becoming center commerce,
Sriwijaya also becomes center religion Budha.
Center empire Sriwijaya, now town Palembang, be place of sojourn of priest from Srilangka and India which will go to Chinese. That is why India culture influence decorative motif of cloth songket Palembang.
Side that is influence from Chinese also sticks at weave art Palembang especially at applying ruddles and golden colour at cloth songket. Caused by influence culturalized from outside the is created weave cloth from Sriwijaya a real beautiful and varies. Thereby this songket cloth is including result of area culture which must be preserveed. Decorative motif of songket usually is in the form of geometric or result of stilisation from flora and fauna, having each meaning of good symbolism. For example clove interest, foreland interest, fragrant jasmine and rose symbolising chastity, grace, fortune and all kindness. Gold yarn motif which meeting and predominates surface of cloth called as songket LEPUS, while which the gold motif spread over called as songket TABUR. At cloth edge usualy is made motif tumpal, trilateral or triangle is broken, so-called sprout motif rebung. Bydm soriyt rebung is growing to become strong bamboo bar and diffract, doesn't fall down diterpa this wind symbolises good hope.
Cloth three countries. This cloth out of three part of colour that is blue, red and green. In peripheral portion of rose colored tumpal motif, in between cloth limar is having motif tube interest. In most having colour middle part is green is having motif star interest to relate to.