Floating Threads: Indonesian Songket and Similar Weaving Traditions

by Judi Achjadi

Floating Threads represents an attempt to catalogue float weave techniques used to decorate Batik cloth throughout the archipelago and hints at possible lines of distribution. Being a coffee-table book, photographs are an important part of the story. Our main sources for photography have been collections in Indonesia's own provincial museums and the National Museum of Indonesia with gaps filled by local collectors and foreign museums when not available...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 6027208503
• ISBN13: 9786027208506
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Bab Publishing Indonesia
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 9.3" x 10.5"