Bryan & Fiona

Palembang

Palembang is the capital city of South Sumatra Province. It has a population of 1,441,500 and is the seventh largest city in Indonesia. Songkets, or woven fabric, of Palembang is the queen of cloth and its cultural heritage is highly values since the olden days. The fabric designs have been influenced by Palembang’s cultural heritage of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam. Most of the songket materials have geometric and floral designs and they resemble the richness and grandeur of the fabrics that was worn in the past by the noble people. Weaving of the songkets require techniques of high accuracy. The cloth composed of a series of threads and teranyam to create a symmetrical pattern on the fabric. Red, green and yellow are the common colours found in songket fabric. Today, the songket is used mainly for weddings and grand occasions.

Jevon & Sherlynn

Minang

The Minangkabau are famous for its traditional dress and women’s traditional headdress. The traditional dress consists of silk robes with metallic thread woven into the material. The silk robes are made with the handlooming of silk kain songket, woven with a supplementary weft of foil thread, which creates a gleaming metallic design. As the old kain songket decay, the valuable threads are picked out and recycled. The women's traditional headdress is a turban with sharp conical points called Tikuluak-tanduak, which resemble buffalo horns.

Welcome to the Pakaian Tradisional Blog designed by the bulletin group of LAB1201 Semester 1 2009/2010. This informative blog will educate you with the rich culture of traditional costumes in different areas of Indonesia.

 

In this project, we were exposed to 12 different traditional costumes from different regions of Indonesia. Details of each traditional costumes will be provided and of course we will showcase to you our lovely LAB1201 project students who were all nicely dressed up in their costumes during D-day! (~mereka tampan dan cantik sekali ya!~)