Lombok Traditional Clothes

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Woven fabric or cloth known as songket is the hallmark of the island of Lombok. Songket cloth is a woven fabric made by adding weft technique, decoration was made by inserting a silver thread, gold thread or yarn lungsi color above, sometimes there is also decorated with beads, shells or coins. Now this center is the village craftsmen Sukarara songket, here if you want to buy the traditional woven cloth Lombok, and see how the weavers do their jobs.

Its location is 25 miles by road from the city of Mataram. The village is very interesting to visit because of the daily activities of people in this village had been weaving. The hallmark of the village Sukarara woven is woven using gold thread, this village has been known to be one of the most visited attractions by domestic and foreign guests. In this village along the road are many shops that sell fabric woven from local villages as well as from the surrounding villages.

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The women in traditional Sasak village with clothes are always ready to demonstrate their skills. But other than songket cloth is known today was a lot of the women who weave these activities are still carried the traditional way, the classic way aka ancient times, in addition to keeping the traditions as well as a tourist attraction.

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Manufacture of woven fabrics of classical or traditional ways of preparing these is the manufacture of yarn and dye manufacture. Making yarn traditionally by using weights that diputar2 with jari2 hand, the weight shaped like a top made of wood or terracotta.

Materials to make yarn other than cotton, bark, banana fiber, pineapple fiber, palm leaves etc.. Making color substance consisting of two colors blue and red. The blue color obtained from indigo or Mirinda Citrifonela or noni. In addition there are other dyes from plants like kesumba (sono rivet), which would really deeehh jaduull … but fun!
Regarding this macam2 songket motifs, there is a chicken motif, there is another motive trus eight flowers, four flower motifs and is still very much anymore motif2 other, let alone getting into the rural part of the more motif2 with masing2 sense, meaning each motif has a meaning and sendiri2 meaning. Na if temen2 now prefers lizard motif (see also Kain songket Sasak) because the people of Lombok believe these animals can bring good luck