Bamboo and bamboo handicrafts in West Southeast Maluku

Sanggar Budaya Terun in Lauran Kote Village, South Tanimbar Sub-district, West Southeast Maluku Regency. Sanggar managed by the local people today produce various forms of pottery such as stoneware, vase, water and jewelry. Results of interviews with your craftsmen. Hedi Masela, the constraint faced by craftsmen is to market the products from the studio, it is likely that craftsmen need to be guided by the related elements.

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PKBM Training Center (Community Learning Activity Center) Dawn is located at Oryoin Street RT 002 / RW 001 Alusi Krawain village Omele Saumlaki market, is an activity center for souvenirs artisans such as woven fabrics, wooden sculptures, pottery, and woven bamboo. In the dawn gallery also sells the souvenirs.

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Weaving has been well known among the people of West-Southeast Maluku hundreds of years ago as people began to shift from using bark and animals as body wrappers. Weaving activities develop throughout the District, the motives of each district are different from each other, and has its own characteristics. Tenun ikat is used as a fashion in the wedding ceremony, traditional ceremony and is now a souvenir for official guests who come to the area, even been promoted to foreign countries. In the past, for weaving they spun the yarn of cotton and colored the plants. Now craftsmen are more likely to use yarn for weaving.

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Motifs and features of woven fabrics include:

• Swan / Branch: Usually used for weaving;
• Sair / Flag: Motifs depicting victory are commonly used during battle;
• Snienar: Coconut leaf / leaf that is usually tied to the legs and hands of men who will fight;
• Ul / Snake / Caterpillar: Motif snake / caterpillar;
• Lolohisi: Motif centipede;
• Engke: The tortoise motif depicts a large tortoise that once lived in the island of Kandar village
  Selaru hundreds of years ago.
  Business Unit, woven weaving group with craftsmen ranged between 10 s.d 15 people groups that are located almost in the entire District / to the countryside. Made from raw materials, cellulose fibers, protein fibers, synthetic fibers, and dyes.

While the equipment used, namely traditional tools (gedogan). For the stages of the production process are: starting with yarn washing, spinning, motif making, coloring, drying, weaving, and ready to market.
The production, the main production in the form of woven fabrics of various sizes and various motifs typical of West Southeast Maluku with various products are processed into: menswear, women's clothing, scarves, tablecloths, ties, wallets, caps, bags, shoes and others.
For marketing, marketed both local scale, regional to foreign countries in the form of orders.
Woven Fabrics Ebshia visitors can witness the making of woven fabric using traditional looms and can try the loom, the location of handicraft woven cloth easy to reach because it is on the main road of Bhineka Saumlaki
Craftsmen woven fabric with variations of modern motifs made by the mother and teenage girl one of the craftsmen there in the village Kandar Saumlaki location can be reached by vehicle.
The village of Tumbur with the sloping coastline of the local people has a business of wood carving from teak wood. In the village of Tumbur there is also carved statues Nata Sere wood sculpture and modern ikat craftsman Kapas Mele which has the values ​​of customs are very sacred. The studio was built by Mr. Elias Malindar. Tenun ikat and Tumbur sculptures spread throughout most of Maluku Barat Barat area.

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The group of wood carvings Faduk Dekut sculpt with some wood carving motifs carved like a ship or miniature sailboat, miniature statue of man used for traditional ceremony. a trip to the village of Tumbur Wertamrian District can use the vehicle with a distance of approximately 12 Km from the city Saumlaki currently roads in a state of broken.