BEAUTY SONGKET PALEMBANG

                                                                                                                                                           Songket is a traditional type of fabric woven from the city of Songket Palembang but there are also other cities in clumps like Riau Malay, Malaysia, Brunei. Songket woven brocade classified in the family. Songket woven by hand with gold and silver thread and is generally worn on formal occasions. Metallic yarn metallic background tertenun brilliant sheen effect fabric.The word comes from the term songket sungkit in Malay and Indonesian, which means "hook" or "gouging". This relates to the method of manufacture; associate and take a pinch of woven cloth, and then slipped the thread emas.Selain it, according to some, the word songket also probably comes from Songka, typical skull cap Palembang is believed the first time habit started weaving with gold thread. menyongket term meaning 'to weave the threads of gold and silver'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                        Songket is a luxurious woven fabric that is usually worn during festivity, celebration or party. Songket can be worn wrapped around the body like a glove, draped across the shoulder, or as a headband or grade ability, ornate headband. Tanjak is a kind of hat headdress made of songket fabrics that are commonly used by the sultans and princes and nobles Sultanate Melayu.Menurut tradition, songket only be woven by virgins or adolescent girls: but now men also helped weave the fabric songket.Beberapa traditional Songket Sumatra has a pattern which implies certain.Songket must go through eight rank before becoming a piece of cloth and still traditionally woven. Because weavers are usually of the village, it is not surprising that his motives were patterned with local plants and animals. This motif is also often named after the Malay traditional cakes like serikaya, diamonds, and flour Salver, which is believed to be the king's confectionary indulgence.Songket weaving is historically associated with settlements and Malay culture, and according to some people this technique was introduced by Indian traders or folk tale Arab.Menurut Palembang songket is the origin of the ancient trade between China and India. 

                                                                                                               

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          The Chinese provide silk yarn while India accounted for the threads of gold and silver, then, be songket. Songket cloth woven on the loom frame Malay. Intricate patterns created by introducing the threads of gold or silver extras with the use of a flat needle. It is not known with certainty from whence comes songket, according to the tradition of weaving techniques such as Kelantan is coming from the north, the region of Cambodia and Siam, which later evolved to the south in Pattani and Kelantan and Terengganu eventually reach around the 1500's. Home-based small industries of weaving songket still survive on the outskirts of Kota Bahru and Terengganu.Akan but according to Terengganu weavers precisely Indialah traders who introduced this technique of weaving first time in Palembang and Jambi, which may have been enacted since the time of Srivijaya (7th century up to -11).According to Indonesia's own tradition, songket is associated with nan golden glories of the kingdom of Srivijaya, a maritime commercial empire nan rich prosperous again which blossomed in the 7th century until the 13th of Sumatra. This is due to the fact that most mahsyur songket craft center is the city of Palembang in Indonesia. Songket is a luxurious fabric that originally require some real gold to be gold thread, then hand woven into a beautiful fabric. Historically gold mine in Sumatra and Jambi is located in the interior highlands of Minangkabau. Although gold thread was found in the ruins of the site of Srivijaya in Sumatra, along with rubies uncut, as well as pieces of gold plate, until now there has been no definitive proof that the local weavers have used gold thread as early as the year 600's to 700's masehi.Songket may be developed at a later period in Sumatra. Songket Palembang songket is the best in Indonesia, both measured in terms of quality, which is nicknamed the "Queen of All Fabrics". Exclusive songket require between one and three months to complete, while the ordinary songket only takes about 3 days.  

                                                                                                                                                                    At first the men using songket as a headband, or a grade ability headband. Then it started Malay women wear the baju kurung songket sarong.Documentation regarding the origin of songket is not so clear, the possibility of achieving songket Malay Peninsula through marriage or alliance between Malay royalty, songket valuable because often times used as a dowry or delivery within a marriage. Such a practice is commonly done by the Malay countries to tie strategic alliance. Songket craft center located in politically significant kingdoms because of the expensive materials of manufacture; gold thread actually is made from sheets of solid gold original.