Beautiful Indonesian Crafts

Hello. My Name is Erwan. This blog's created by the strong desire of my heart to share about the beauty of the Indonesian crafts....especially the crafts that exist by my neigbourhood and suuroundings... traditionally created by hands...

Selasa, 12 Agustus 2008

Tapis




Tapis are traditional clothes of women in province of Lampung, Indonesia. It's a woven made of cotton yarn with motives or "sugi" decorated, silver or gold yarn, with a kind of embroidery system (cucuk). This kind of clothes usually wear as "sarong", and have many motives like nature, animal and floral embroidery. This clothes is a traditional craft because of the tools that use by craftsman still conventional, and usually done by women as a part of sacred tradition. This clothes now are the high valuable commodity of Lampung that have high economic values.

Senin, 11 Agustus 2008

Beautiful Handbags






These beauty of pretentious handbags was made of a series of beads. I couldn't imagine how these masterpieces materialized by the hands of a housekeeping mother, doing step by step, one bead after one bead being chained patiently between her spare times... Each being done in about two weeks.

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