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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 395356, member: 2844&quot;]It was made by the Batak people, from Sumatra, Indonesia, probably for the tourist trade.</p><p>Indonesian peoples have different fabric styles for different purposes, often with an important symbolic meaning. This fabric is based on the type of weave for the Batak Ulos, a cloth worn over the shoulder, which is connected with a spiritual bond within a community.</p><p>Some Batak weaves have words woven in them, and some are decorated with beads.</p><p><br /></p><p>Indonesian is one of the few Asian languages written in Latin script. Indonesian tribal languages, like Batak, are often written in Latin script as well.</p><p>I can only discern the word Tuhan, which means God. The rest is probably in the Batak language, which has similarities with Indonesian. The prefix ber- also seems to be in there, after that comes samak, one of the Javanese Indonesian meanings of samak is cover. Bersamaki is not a regular Indonesian word, but if translated literally it could refer to something to cover, which a shirt is.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Or covered/protected by God, which is much nicer of course.</p><p>I don&#039;t read Batak, and can only link it to Indonesian, so I could be totally off base.</p><p><br /></p><p>An old Batak Ulos with woven text and beads:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]137444[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://rugrabbit.com/node/152131" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rugrabbit.com/node/152131" rel="nofollow">https://rugrabbit.com/node/152131</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The traditional Batak Ulos, worn over the shoulder:</p><p><img src="https://s14-eu5.startpage.com/cgi-bin/serveimage?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.topindonesiaholidays.com%2Fblog%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2014%2F11%2Fulos-batak.jpg&amp;sp=f281b5f918d2f1302f5049b7dd061f37" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><img src="https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-3358bab60e5d5cca83f23ddadf54c8fd-c" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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