Songket is a type of traditional woven cloth Malays. Songket usually woven by hand with gold and silver threads and generally worn on formal occasions.
Songket origin is from ancient trade between China and India. People Tionghoa provide silk, while the Indians contributed gold and silver thread.As a result, be songket.
Songket fabrics woven on the loom frame Malays. Intricate patterns are created by introducing the threads of gold or silver with the use of an extra piece of flat needles.
Songket must go through eight ranks before becoming a piece of cloth and is woven traditionally. Because the weavers are usually from the village, it is not surprising that his motives were patterned after the local flora and fauna. This motif was also named to the Malays as a series of local cake is rich, diamonds, and meal trays, which are allegedly the king's favorite.
Songket exclusive require between one and three months to complete, while ordinary songket only takes about three days.
At first the man using songket as a headband or headband. Then it began to Malays woman wearing gloves with songket baju kurung. Songket today is a popular choice for wedding garments are often provided by the Melayu and groom to the bride as a wedding present one.
Judging from the price, songket is not intended only for people who are just because the price varies from the usual and considered to be cheap , until an exclusive with a very high price.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Ulos Cloth
Ulos or often also called ulos cloth is one of the typical Indonesian fashion. Ulos hereditary developed by the Batak people, Sumatra. From his native language, meaning ulos cloth. How to create a similar ulos by making songket typical Palembang, which is not a machine using a loom.
Ulos dominant color is red, black, white and decorated by a variety of fabrics of gold or silver threads. Ulos originally worn in the form of a scarf or gloves alone, often used on official or ceremonial events, Batak, but is now found in many products in the form of souvenirs, pillow, belts, bags, clothes, table cloth, ties, wallets, and curtains.
Ulos also sometimes given to the mother who was pregnant in order to facilitate the birth of the baby into the world and to protect the mother from all sorts of dangers which threaten the process of childbirth. ulos Most have become extinct because it is not produced anymore, like King ulos, ulos Yeast Botik, sombre ulos, ulos Saput (ulos used as wrapping the body), and Ulos Sibolang.
Ulos dominant color is red, black, white and decorated by a variety of fabrics of gold or silver threads. Ulos originally worn in the form of a scarf or gloves alone, often used on official or ceremonial events, Batak, but is now found in many products in the form of souvenirs, pillow, belts, bags, clothes, table cloth, ties, wallets, and curtains.
Ulos also sometimes given to the mother who was pregnant in order to facilitate the birth of the baby into the world and to protect the mother from all sorts of dangers which threaten the process of childbirth. ulos Most have become extinct because it is not produced anymore, like King ulos, ulos Yeast Botik, sombre ulos, ulos Saput (ulos used as wrapping the body), and Ulos Sibolang.
Culture batik
Batik is a craft that has high artistic value and has become part of Indonesian culture (especially Java) since long. Javanese women past their skill in batik to make a livelihood, so that in the past batik work is the exclusive work of women to the discovery of "Batik Cap" that allows the entry of men into the field. There are some exceptions to this phenomenon, namely the coastal batik which has a line of masculine as can be seen in the style of "Mega Overcast", which in some coastal areas batik work is common for men.
Batik tradition was originally a hereditary tradition, so occasionally a recognizable motif batik originated from a particular family. Some batik may indicate the status of a person. Even today, some Traditional batik only used by the family palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Batik is an ancestral heritage of Indonesia (Java) that until now still there. Batik is also first introduced to the world by President Suharto, who at that time wore batik at the UN Conference.
Batik tradition was originally a hereditary tradition, so occasionally a recognizable motif batik originated from a particular family. Some batik may indicate the status of a person. Even today, some Traditional batik only used by the family palace of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.
Batik is an ancestral heritage of Indonesia (Java) that until now still there. Batik is also first introduced to the world by President Suharto, who at that time wore batik at the UN Conference.
History of batik technique
Art fabrics stained with staining prevention techniques using night is one of the ancient art form. The discovery in Egypt showed that this technique has been known since the 4th century BC, with the discovery of a mummy wrapping cloth which is also coated the night to form a pattern. In Asia, similar to batik technique is also applied in China during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907) as well as in India and Japan during the Nara Period (645-794). In Africa, the batik technique known as the Yoruba tribe in Nigeria, and the Soninke and Wolof tribe in Senegal. In Indonesia, batik is believed to have existed since the time of Majapahit, and became very popular end of the XVIII century or early nineteenth century. Produced batik batik is everything to early twentieth century and the new batik known after World War I or about the year 1920.
Although the word "batik" is derived from the Javanese language, batik in Java's presence alone is not listed. Rouffaer GP believes that the batik technique is likely introduced from India or Sri Lanka in the 6th century or the 7th. On the other hand, JLA Brandes (Dutch archaeologists) and FA Sutjipto (archaeologist Indonesia) believe that the tradition of batik is a native of the region such as the Toraja, Flores, Halmahera and Papua. It should be noted that these regions are not areas that are influenced by Hinduism, but known to have the ancient tradition of making batik.
GP Rouffaer gringsing also reported that the pattern has been popular since the 12th century in Kediri, East Java. He concludes that this pattern can only be formed by using a canting, so he believes that the canting is found in Java at the time about it.
The Legend of Malays in the literature of the 17th century, Sulalatus Salatin told Admiral Hang Nadim ordered by Sultan Mahmud to sail to India to get 140 pieces of litter with 40 kinds of flower patterns on each sheet. Unable to fulfill the order, he makes his own cloth-cloth. But unfortunately shipwrecked on his way home and only carry four pieces that make the emperor was disappointed.
In European literature, batik technique was first described in the book History of Java (London, 1817) writings of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. He served as British governor of Java during Napoleon occupied the Netherlands. In 1873 a Dutch merchant Van Rijekevorsel give a piece of batik, which is obtained during a visit to Indonesia to the Ethnic Museum in Rotterdam and in the early 19th century that is beginning to reach its golden ages batiks. When exhibited at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900, Indonesian batik artists and the public enthralled.
Since the industrialization and globalization, which introduces automation techniques, new types emerged batik, known as batik and batik prints, while produced with traditional batik techniques handwriting using canting and night is called batik. At the same time immigrants from Indonesia to Malaya Fellowship also carries batik with them.
Although the word "batik" is derived from the Javanese language, batik in Java's presence alone is not listed. Rouffaer GP believes that the batik technique is likely introduced from India or Sri Lanka in the 6th century or the 7th. On the other hand, JLA Brandes (Dutch archaeologists) and FA Sutjipto (archaeologist Indonesia) believe that the tradition of batik is a native of the region such as the Toraja, Flores, Halmahera and Papua. It should be noted that these regions are not areas that are influenced by Hinduism, but known to have the ancient tradition of making batik.
GP Rouffaer gringsing also reported that the pattern has been popular since the 12th century in Kediri, East Java. He concludes that this pattern can only be formed by using a canting, so he believes that the canting is found in Java at the time about it.
The Legend of Malays in the literature of the 17th century, Sulalatus Salatin told Admiral Hang Nadim ordered by Sultan Mahmud to sail to India to get 140 pieces of litter with 40 kinds of flower patterns on each sheet. Unable to fulfill the order, he makes his own cloth-cloth. But unfortunately shipwrecked on his way home and only carry four pieces that make the emperor was disappointed.
In European literature, batik technique was first described in the book History of Java (London, 1817) writings of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles. He served as British governor of Java during Napoleon occupied the Netherlands. In 1873 a Dutch merchant Van Rijekevorsel give a piece of batik, which is obtained during a visit to Indonesia to the Ethnic Museum in Rotterdam and in the early 19th century that is beginning to reach its golden ages batiks. When exhibited at the World Exposition in Paris in 1900, Indonesian batik artists and the public enthralled.
Since the industrialization and globalization, which introduces automation techniques, new types emerged batik, known as batik and batik prints, while produced with traditional batik techniques handwriting using canting and night is called batik. At the same time immigrants from Indonesia to Malaya Fellowship also carries batik with them.
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Republic of Indonesia abbreviated RI or Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia, which is crossed by the equator and lies between Asia and Australia as well as between the Pacific and Indian Ocean. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic country consisting of 17,508 islands, therefore it is also known as the Nusantara (Island of). With a population of 222 million people in 2006, [4] Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest Muslim populated country in the world, although not officially an Islamic state. Indonesia is a republic, the House of Representatives, the Regional Representative Council and the President is elected directly. Is the country's capital Jakarta. Indonesia borders with Malaysia on Borneo island, with Papua New Guinea on the island of Papua, and Timor Leste in the Timor Island. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.
The history of Indonesia has been influenced by other nations. Indonesian archipelago became an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when the kingdom of Sriwijaya religion and trade relations with China and India. Kingdoms of the Hindus and Buddhists have been growing in the early centuries AD, followed by the traders who brought Islam, and various European powers fought one another to monopolize the spice trade in the Moluccas during the era of ocean exploration. Once under Dutch rule, Indonesia declared its independence at the end of World War II. Furthermore, Indonesia had a variety of obstacles, threats and challenges of natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process and the period
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