01 · Negeri Sembilan

Rembau

A cloth in two halves. On the left, flowers and curling vines are scattered over a gold ground; on the right, a navy panel is filled with rows of leaf shapes. A narrow red border runs between them. Photographed on display at Muzium Rembau.

The pattern

Tap a part to see where it is on the cloth.

1. 1The flowering fieldOpen flowers in blue, red and navy hang from vines that curl across the whole left half. No two sprays are quite alike.
2. 2The speckled groundLook closely at the gold: it is covered in tiny dots, so the ground shimmers instead of lying flat behind the flowers.
3. 3The red borderA narrow red band with small flowers, edged in fine lines, keeps the two halves apart.
4. 4The leaf panelOn navy, leaf shapes in green, gold and red fan out sideways from a centre column of small flowers, row after row.

Seen at

Muzium Rembau, Negeri Sembilan

Colours

Gold, navy, red and green

Photo: Zahirulnukman, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped.