“Ara Borgstena is responsible for its commercialising phase,” says Ara Borgstena general manager Mohamad Pauzi Zahudin. “Besides speed, one striking difference between our songket and traditional songket is that our songket fabrics do not have the coarse, floating stitching called loop underneath, a feature commonly found in handmade songket. “Besides being able to incorporate customised corporate logos into the fabric, we also use traditional songket motifs,” he adds. Among the traditional Malay songket motifs used in Ara Borgstena’s songket are pucuk rebung, tampuk manggis, bunga melur and bunga pecah lapan. Mohamad Pauzi showing the loop of traditional songket, a feature which is common in handmade songket but not in factory-made pieces.

Source: New Strait Times November 22, 2017 03:11 UTC