Songket Weaving in Sidemen

Sit at the loom with Sidemen's weavers, where a single ceremonial cloth takes three months and is sold by the maker, not a shop.

Sidemen weaves songket — silk with supplementary gold or silver thread — for temple and wedding dress across Bali. You learn to read a pattern, try the shuttle on a practice warp, and understand why the price of a real piece looks the way it does when you count the hours.

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Meet Kadek

Palm tapper's daughter and songket weaver · Sidemen, Karangasem

Kadek weaves songket between palm-sugar seasons and coordinates which households in Sidemen host visitors, so the income spreads instead of concentrating on the one family beside the road.

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