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Last update : July 13 2008
“Fit for a king”
SONGKET belongs to the brocade family of textiles. The term “songket” comes from the Malay word menyongket, (meaning to embroider). However, strictly speaking, songket is not embroidery. It is woven using the supplementary weft technique. In the songket process, supplementary metallic threads are inserted in special lengths in between the silk warp (lengthwise) threads of the main background cloth. These special threads – or weft (crosswise) – float or pass over three, five or seven silk warp threads, and under one on the loom to form designated patterns, which contrast in colour and texture with the ground or base cloth.
Dark Horse Comics: Secret Mac Superpowers
Dark Horse Comics has published comics and graphic novels for more than 20 years. And for most of its superpowered history, the Mac has played a key role. Thanks to a network of nearly 150 Macs, Dark Horse publishes 30 or more comics and graphic novels a month. And the Mac has helped Dark Horse expand into film and television, producing blockbusters from 1994’s The Mask to this summer’s Hellboy II.
Coming Attractions: Traitor
Opening August 27, Traitor stars Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Hotel Rwanda, Crash) and Guy Pearce (Memento, L.A. Confidential) in a “taut international thriller set against a jigsaw puzzle of covert counter-espionage operations.” You can catch the exclusive HD trailer for Traitor, written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff, on the Movie Trailers site.