Songket Dot Com

Our company provide handmade art collection of batik and songket. Batik or batique is an Indonesian-Malay word and refers to a generic wax-resist dyeing technique used on textile. The word originates from Malay word for dot or point, "titik" and the Javanese word "amba", meaning to write. It is found in several countries either in Africa or in Asia, such as India, Sri Lanka, Iran, and Thailand but is most popular in Indonesia and Malaysia. The island of Java in Indonesia is famous for its batik, particularly in places as Yogyakarta, Solo, Cirebon or Pekalongan. Kain Songket is a hand-woven traditional Malay fabric with gold and silver threads and worn mainly during official functions and ceremoniesWoven on a Malay frame loom, elaborate patterns are created by introducing extra gold or silver weft threads with the use of a flat needle or cuban.