2 Old Balinese Metallic Gold Embroidery Brocade Wedding Songket Burgundy SG25,26

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2 Old Balinese Metallic Gold Embroidery Brocade Wedding Songket Burgundy SG25,26:
$229.99

You are buying an older Metallic Brocade Woman Wedding Songket Beltcalled Sabuk or Setagen SG25, with Gold Embroidery on Burgundy background and getting FREE an older songket wedding sarong SG26 with silver metal embroideries on purple background seen on the last 4 photos.

Both belonging once to Balinese nobility.

Handspun Silk, silk and cotton blends and Goldthreads for the belt.

The belt is in great shape but the sarong has discoloration here and there from the sun.

Handwoven, Hand embroideries

Belt Collected in the Klungkung Regency, Bali,perfect condition for its age, no holes, no tears.

The owner told us both were around 60 years old or more,

This old entirely hand embroidered hand wovenTraditional Wedding Metallic Brocade has gold embroidery motifs on a veryfinely woven dyed with natural pigments background. Older piece in goodcondition (for its age), like this one, were hard to find from the mid 1900’son. Gorgeous coloration & very fine delicate weave and extensive gold orsilver embroideries & minute designs woven in metallic thread on a rich coloredbackground. We have sold these pieces for a lot more in the past but are now selling out. We arelooking to retire and are starting to liquidate what is left in our privatecollection.

Songketis a fabric that belongs to the family of brocade textiles. It is hand woven insilk or cotton, and intricately patterned with gold or silver threads. Themetallic threads stand out against the background cloth to create a shimmeringeffect. In the weaving process the metallic threads are inserted in between thesilk or cotton weft (latitudinal) threads. The term songket comes from theMalay Indonesian word sungkit, which means \"to hook\". It hassomething to do with the method of songket making; to hook and pick a group ofthreads, and then slip the gold threads in it. The word menyongket means\"to embroider with gold or silver threads\":. Songket is a luxuryproduct traditionally worn during ceremonial occasions as sarong, shouldercloths or head ties. Tanjak or Songket headdresses were worn at the courts ofthe Malay Sultanates and nobility. Traditionally women and adolescent girlswove songket and traditionally-patterned textiles embodied a system ofinterpretable emblems to the few that were able to create them and wear them.

From our privatecollection accumulated over 35 years.

Few costumes in theworld 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 coveredby a sabuk, another strip of silk overlaid, and gold leaf and gold plugsthrough her ears

I have seen this type ofold songket weaving with extreme minute details sell for a lot more on theinternet even with holes and rips.

This is a bargain thatwas part of our private collection and now for sale

at a fraction of itsvalue.

We are closing our doorsso everything has been reduced!

Check Dominique RiceOceania Store in Sun Sentinel Newspaper, Fort Lauderdale, for information onour collection and authentic art.

If you have anyquestions, contact us or call for documents and further information on pieces.

Allour collector and rare items come with pages and pages of research aboutprovenance, and with history of the tribes and photos as well, depending onitem and whenever possible. When shipping internationally, we group shipmultiple purchases to save you money, and find the best rates which often failsto calculate right. If you have any questions or want to see research conductedon this piece and photos of tribes, email or call us.

Wehave artifacts and architectural accents up to 10 ft tall that we will put onupon request because shipping has to be calculated accordingly with truckingcompany.