Development of local textiles
Royal protective attire made from an Ottoman textile and woven with Islamic verses (18th century). Such jackets have been used by early Kelantan sultans.
Prior to the arrival of Europeans in the 16th century CE, the early textiles and weaving traditions of the Malay Peninsula, Sabah and Sarawak were heavily influenced by trade with Indian, Chinese and Arab merchants of the ‘water silk route’. Inspired by the foreign textiles imported in this way, unique indigenous and local textiles evolved and flourished.
- Information in the full article includes
- Trade beginnings
- Building on a tradition of fine textiles