Brunei

Brunei is known for songket gold weaving, brassware, stilt-house construction on the water village and Malay drum music.

Textile & dress Crafts Building & habitat Music & dance

Knowledge in this place

Brunei songket weaving

Brunei songket weaving

Hand-weaving silk shot with gold thread into ceremonial cloth with local diamond motifs.

Textile & dress

Brassware casting

Brassware casting

Casting brass cannons, gongs and betel boxes by the lost-wax method, then chasing the surface.

Water-village stilt houses

Water-village stilt houses

Building timber houses on hardwood piles over the river, linked by raised plank walkways.

Building & habitat

Adai-adai rowing song

Adai-adai rowing song

A call-and-response song once sung by fishermen to keep time as they rowed together.