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Each is exquisitely dressed in glittering songket fabrics and wears a gilded and jeweled head-dress embellished with fresh frangipani (plumeria) flowers.
Batik fabric designs, silver and pewter ware, and silk brocaded songket cloth are popular items.
At Sukarara, to the south of Mataram, you will find almost every house has an old-fashioned loom for weaving the gorgeous songket fabric, which mingles gold and silver threads with cotton.
Shops take advantage of the tourist traffic to sell the products of other islands, too — embroidery and songket fabrics from Sumatra, primitive art from Irian Jaya, and silver from Sulawesi.
Songket was originally reserved for royalty, but is today also used for bridal dresses, other ceremonial robes, cushion-covers, and handbags.
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