Elegance Fabric Bali

Bali woven fabric, has long been famous as a souvenir for any tourist who visit and want to have a distinctive keepsake Island of Thousand Temples. When in fact woven fabric is a cultural identity, which should be passed on from generation to generation in order to continue to exist.

One village was known as a producer of traditional weaving is the village of Sidemen, Karangasem, Bali. Weaving has become a daily activity of the population, especially women. On the sidelines of the care of the household, the women would weave, a skill which they inherited from their ancestors.

Sidemen woven fabric consists of several kinds. However, the most popular fabric woven ikat and songket. Ikat fabric, which is usually referred to endek, commonly used in everyday life. As with the weaving songket cloth, which is used for special events. Such as, weddings, otonan, cutting teeth, cremation or other traditional ceremonies.

The process of producing ikat or songket have differences. To weave ikat fabric type or endek, starting with spinning. Where the thread will be stretched on an instrument skelter. Strand after strand of yarn will be tied with rope, customized with decorative motifs and colors desired.

After binding the desired motifs, further colored yarn to be dyed. Threads that have been submerged colors will be sorted, only then the thread will be woven to produce fabric.

Being the songket fabric, the fabric is woven first inserted with benag gold, copper or silver on top of the warp which it is based. Additional threads will form its own style, and produce beautiful fabrics, elegant and appealing to the wearer.

Another type of weaving that is no less well known is typical of double ikat Tenganan. Among the people of Tenganan, woven fabric used when the customary activities that are sacred. Especially when usaba Sambah ceremony on the fifth sasih.

Tenganan typical woven fabric using three colors, namely yellow, black and red are derived from natural ingredients. Yellow color obtained from a mixture of hazelnut oil in water mixed with ash. Regular hazelnut forest obtained from Tenganan. The next thread will be woven fabric used, first soaked in a mixture of ash and walnut oil, for about seven days a month.

Gerinsing fabric color has its own meaning. Yellow color as a representation of the air, water and black is the symbol of the red as a symbol of fire or energy that is in the universe.

While, in the form of motifs plus or plus signs, is a symbol of balance in the human body is a microcosm. If the elements of air, water and fire are not balanced, then the human body will be damaged resulting in the onset of disease.

The black color is obtained when the yarn soaked in sediment whiting, sticky tape, wood and banana leaves, marinated tilapia for a month. At first thread will be blue, over time soaking the yarn will go black.

The red color of the yarn comes from immersion in a mixture of bark and root bark of Morinda citrifolia kepundung. Thread which indirectly soaked red, but yellow first, until long into the red.

Once stained, the thread will be included in the current incarnation of the rice water ditanak or cooked. The goal that the color of the thread to be durable, do not fade, will not be easy to break, and ready to be woven into a charming form of woven fabric.