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Songket Bernhard Bart is conserving the art of songket weaving as traditional handicraft and in its original high quality through researching

and producing songket textiles with traditional motifs typical of the Minangkabau in West Sumatra, as well as motifs from all Sumatra

The fabric of heritage and craftsmanship

Minangkabau songket selendangs

Old and new (both author's collection)

Left: Old tangkuluak from Pitalah, ca. 1900 (288x35cm)
Right: New selendang from Pandai Sikek, 1997 (155x33cm)

Motif as intricate

Besides making replicas of old songkets my team of weavers and I are also able to adapt for weaving any kind of motif as intricate it may be, be it textile motifs taken from stone statues

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