Ikat Weaving village Songket and Sukarare - Central Lombok:
Sukarara villages in Lombok known as songket weaving village. Behind the smooth and beautiful tenunnya was stored condition which requires the weaver virgins. Wiih!
Not married, that's one of the terms given to the weavers village Sukarara songketnya. The village is famous as the center of this craft of weaving songket, it gives certain conditions for pengrajinan songket, so that the resulting fabric has the best quality.
Located in District Jonggot, Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Sukarara Village has become one of the tourist village tourist destination. In this village, tourists can watch the skilled hands of artisans in songket weaving, the traditional way of course.
Seemed to know the many tourists who are interested in this village, the village women Talbot always welcome any travelers who arrived at the village entrance. Almost all wore traditional Sasak tribe, complete.
After the welcome, then your journey begins in the village Sukarara. Travelers will be invited to tour the village, and see how women Sukarara songket weaving.
Typically, the process of weaving songket can be seen directly in our homes. Not a few who deliberately showed his skills in the home workshop menyongket.
With lively, the women in the village Sukarara spinning into cloth, using a traditional loom. More fun again, tourists who come to try to use this loom.
True, women in the village weave Sukarara is compulsory. Much more unique, one of the conditions of the weavers in the village, the girls must be virgins alias alias unmarried women in the village. So practically, before marrying the girl should be smart weave.
Well, if there are women who can not weave, but desperate to get married, it will be liable to a fine. Fine could be money, rice or rice yields. This rule was created so that women in the village of Sukarara more independent and not dependent on men.
In addition to seeing weaving activities, in the village of Sukarara You can also see there are many shops selling woven songket cloth. Colorful woven cloth display in every shop window.
Generally, in every stall sold two types of cloth, ie woven ikat and songket cloth. Songket cloth is only made by women in the manual. Her work is quite long, reaching 1 to 2.5 months.
Motive given for each fabric is usually different. There is a patterned fabric belt custom house and barn, not a few also have a gecko motif. Custom house and barn as a symbol of life Sasak tribe. Gecko is good luck for the people of Lombok animals.
Should not be asked about the price. You could say the price given for each fabric in accordance with the length and complexity of the manufacturing process. Price a piece of songket cloth varied, ranging from Rp 200000-5000000. Depending on the motif and size. If the price was considered too expensive, you can choose a small scarf for Rp 20,000.
Unlike the songket, ikat has a shorter production time. To 3 meters of fabric can be completed in a day. Wow!
Ikat cloth is usually used for bedding material or fabric. Ikat prices vary depending on type of dye. Fabrics with chemical dyes are priced at about Rp 100,000, while the fabric with natural dyes are priced Rp 150,000.
One reason why the simple woven fabric were found in almost every souvenir shop on the island of Lombok is because it is a producer of quality single weave. One of the centers is a manufacturer of woven Sukarara Village (pronounced "Sukarare").
In Sukarara, woven fabric is the product of home industry, not a large plant commodities. Almost every house in the village with a population of 150 head of the family had a loom. Even so, the only true professional weavers engaged the Eve. They usually weave on the front porch, the activity which acted on during the day while waiting for their husbands returning from the fields.
Local tradition confirms the role of women: the wedding party, women are required to provide home-made woven fabric to the couple. A local joke says that women can not automatically going to weave "menjomblo" lifetime.
Why are professional weavers engaged only women can also be explained in the context of the economy: a wife who is expected to weave the family economy when the harvest failed.
Because of just relying on simple machines, weaving process generally lasts pretty long. It takes at least a month to produce a piece of cloth with a width of 1.2 meters long and two meters. The complexity of motives and types of yarn in the market determines the price of cloth-average ranges between 100 thousand to 5 million per sheet.
Want to visit the village? It's easy. You can use a rental car or taxi from Mataram. Travel time is usually spent about 30 minutes with a distance of 20 km.
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