Since prehistoric times,the ancestors of the Indonesian nation have become accustomed to weaving techniques.This is reinforced by the discovery of pottery from the neolithic era where there is a coarse woven fabric and several findings of other woven fabric fragments. And almost in all regions of Indonesia has a culture of weaving cloth. Each area has a woven fabric,with a different style and has its own characteristics,with a different name.

There are two categories of songket weaving equipments; the main weaving equipment made from wooden or bamboo frame; and the supporting equipment which includes thread stretching tool, motif making tool, thread inserting and picking tools. The materials for making songket consist of cotton or silk threads or other fibers as the base fabric and decoration threads made from golden, silver or silk threads. It is believed that in ancient times, real gold threads were used to create songket; the cotton threads were run along heated liquid gold, coating the cotton and creating gold thread. However today because the scarcity and the expensiveness of real gold threads, imitation gold or silver threads are commonly used instead.

Basically, both weaving and songket weaving are not much different. They are both made by weaving two types of nodes whose lanes are made vertically and horizontally through the aid of tools and wooden blades.Only on songket,there is additional technique in the form of hills or The cukit technique,that is, there is a yarn part before it is woven into another path lifted and half twisted first using a tool.

However, this technique has no great effect on songket texture,and the most distinguishing songket with ordinary weaving type is none other than The type of yarn used. On the songket,there is always a gold thread or silver thread adorned on the surface of the fabric. Europeans and Americans call this weaving method as an inlay weaving system. Songket cloth is a kind of traditional woven fabric belonging to brocade woven family.

While in the neighboring island of Lombok, the Sukarara village in Jonggat district, Central Lombok regency, is famous for songket making. In this village, learning how to weave a good songket is an obligation for the Sasak women. Weaving songket is usually done by women during their spare time, and subsequently this traditional skill has enabled them to earn money for their family.

According to www.steemit.com.