Saturday, February 18, 2012

Indonesian Tribal Weave : ikat.


Tribal is back on trend! On domination of bright colors and Weave style motifs, tribal weaves print can make you look misteriusly stylish. Want to know the secret? Combine your tribal weave with black and you’ll be super irresistible!
The types of Indonesian original textile is not only just batik. There are still a million property in Indonesia which boasts the world’s eyes. One of them is a woven fabric.



  • WHAT IS WEAVING?
Weaving is the process of making yarn into fabric sheets. In most of the clothes we wear, generally has gone through the process of weaving. But the weaving of traditional hand made Indonesia, is very different from the outfit that we wear everyday.

  • HOW THEY DID IT?
In short, the process can be described as weaving looms paper. But instead of paper, woven here is the thread that has been in color. The thread here is often made from natural fibers. For example silk, flax fiber and others. Sky is the limit!

  • THE EARLY WEAVES
Weaving has been a tradition of crafting in Indonesia since the Paleolithic era, when ancient men are still using crude stone tools. That said, this weaving technique inspired by the texture of spider webs, bird nests and wooden fabric of the beaver dam.

  • THE MULTICULTURAL  FACES OF WEAVE
Each fabric has a distinctive characteristic depends on the area of ??origin. Authentic traditional woven using natural dyes, so that the color range in production may also differ depending on the type of plant dyes are available in each region. So, every region has the characteristics of different colors and patterns. Thus, enchired our culture even more.



  •  THEY WENT INTERNATIONAL
The latest news in the fashion industry, Gucci and Dries van Houten has issued a collection of them with the basic material woven Indonesia. Gucci has named collections with “Gucci by Indonesia”.

  • BIG NAMES
The local Indonesian designer, Oscar Lawalata and Adrian Gan using NTT weaving, barly Asmara and Stephanus Hamy which to explore Balinese weaving and also Poppy Dharsono and Ali Charisma carrying materials weaving the next level. Not only in the country, the designer collection also has been on display to foreign countries.

Gucci by Indonesia
Stephanus Hamy
  • FUN FACTS!
One type of weaving that originated from Bali, which is double ikat, only in production in three places in the world. In India, Japan, and Bali. Process and the motives that very complicated, making it increasingly extinct type of weaving. Even in time of need two years to weave one meter of this fabric. Wow!fashioninn4us.blogspot.com

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