Atjehsche goudweefsels were the gold-thread weavings of Atjeh, the luxury cloth in which metal thread was interwoven with the silk of the weavers of the sultanate. Moens, who was shown examples in November 1913 during his journey through Atjeh, recorded of them: the weavings he saw, waren bijzonder mooi; de meeste zijn van zeer donkere kleur, veelal zwart, waarin met gouddraad motieven zijn geweven; soms ook donkerrood met goud — they were particularly beautiful; most were of very dark colour, often black, in which motifs were woven with gold thread, sometimes also dark red with gold. The form of the cloths was mostly the customary one of the country’s weaving traditie; and what struck him most was that the pieces, niettegenstaande de dikwijls overvloedige doorweving met gouddraad, uiterst soepel waren gebleven — notwithstanding the often abundant interweaving with gold thread, had remained extremely supple, in contrast with similar weavings from other parts of the Indies. The weaving of gold-thread cloth belonged, with the silk-weaving of the plain of Groot-Atjeh, to the branches of the native arts and crafts which the years of the peace again allowed to develop.
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Reisindrukken van Atjeh, door W. Moens, oud-luitenant ter zee (Amsterdam: Jacob van Campen, 1914), p. 43. OCR-filename: 20260716_140310_DLP-99-Reisindrukken_van_Atjeh_Nemotron-OCR-v2_OCR.txt.