🇲🇾 The sarees of Malaysia
8 sarees from Malaysia, best known first, across 2 centres and states.
Weaving centres and states of Malaysia
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreSarongsarung
A tubular waist-wrap of batik or checks, worn across Asia, Africa and the Pacific.Cotton · Batik · Ikat
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 5 moreBatikꦧꦛꦶꦏ꧀
A wax-resist dyeing technique from Java, used for patterned cloth.Silk · Batik · Hand painting
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 4 moreKebayaꦏꦼꦧꦪ
A front-opening blouse worn across Southeast Asia with a sarong or kainCotton · Embroidery
🇮🇩 Indonesia and 3 moreSongketᬲᭀᬂᬓᬾᬢ᭄
A hand-woven brocade cloth of Southeast Asia, patterned with gold or silver threadSilk · Brocade · Zari work
Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Sarong: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Batik: Fpangestuphotographer, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Kebaya: Simon_sees, CC BY 2.0, source
- Songket: Rijksmuseum, CC0, source