Spotlight on Sarawak’s heritage

Wearing tradition with pride: A photograph displayed at the Ranee Museum in Kuching showing Ranee Margaret (seated second from right) and local Malay women wearing keringkam headscarves and shawls.

KUCHING: A 140-year-old keringkam shawl, which once belonged to Ranee Margaret – the wife of Sarawak’s second White Rajah Charles Brooke – will be shown at the London Craft Week, showcasing the traditional embroidery of Sarawak’s Malay community.

The shawl is now in the collection of the Brooke Trust, a British charity set up by descendants of the Brooke family.