Fabric shopping in Kuala Lumpur
A bit of lighter reading today. Thank you for your kind comments and thoughts on my last post, I appreciate this very much. I’ll save the drama that is my life for another day. During my work trip to Kuala Lumpur, I had two days of leave, which I used to explore the city on foot and by cab. This was Monday and Tuesday. Some of my free time I used for my second favourite hobby, fabric shopping. I had high hopes for fabric shopping in Kuala Lumpur. I had done some reading on traditional fabrics produced in Malaysia and was keen to see some, and maybe even buy some. To learn more, I visited the National Textile Museum , a small but well curated museum with four galleries. I learned about Songket (handwoven silk/cotton with silver or gold threads) and Batik (wax-resist dyed fabric). I also learned about Tenun Pahang Diraja , a woven silk fabric. All are different and all are beautiful. I was quite keen to bring home a length of a Batik fabric but I was disappointed. None of the fabric...
