The royal textile of the Malay world, songket is a silk or cotton fabric supplementally woven with gold or silver thread in geometric patterns derived from centuries of court aesthetic tradition. Kelantan and Terengganu are its principal production centres, and a quality handwoven songket kain can require three months of weaving and command prices that reflect both the material cost and the extraordinary labour involved.

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