Fabric Gringsing

Fabric Gringsing

Results villagers Tenganan home production of high value are woven Gringsing, the process uses double ikat technique or double bind, the process requires a fairly long period of 2-5 years. Tenganan itself is one of the villages Bali Private villa seminyak Age (population original Balinese) that still retains the cultural heritage and traditions handed down by their ancestors as tradition Mekaré-kare or pandanus war and war banana, as well as a number of customary rules that remain to this day, making it became one of the attractions in Bali travel accommodation which has a unique culture and traditions, many local and foreign tourists visiting here, to be able to watch more closely whereabouts of Tenganan village.

Woven fabric Gringsing indeed have artistic value and outstanding quality. Its name comes from the Balinese language with the origin of the word "Gring" means pain and "Sing" means no, so that the whole becomes the word "no pain" is defined as a repellent reinforcements, so every religious ceremonies such as weddings, cutting teeth used the cloth that is believed to protection, have magical powers to refrain from bad influences. The myth that is still believed to be locals, came from the story of Lord Indra who marveled at the beauty of the night the village of Tenganan, then he teaches how to weave to women, exposing and capture the beauty of the expanse of the sky, including the sun, moon and stars in a woven motif.

Woven fabric Gringsing is indeed the only one on the island, even by experts of textile techniques of weaving double ikat can only be found in three locations: Japan, India and Indonesia (Tenganan), we should be proud to have cultural heritage as well as the results of traditional production that is rare in the world , If you happen to vacation in Bali, plans to visit here, you can rent a car in Bali Cheap hotel accommodation, from the airport about 1.5 hours drive towards the East, right at the fork before Candidasa turn left as far as 5 km. Well if you mengekesplorasi this area you can tour to visit the attractions in East Bali more adjacent, like Labuhan Amuk a submarine Odyssey Submarine, white sand beaches Prasi, Taman Ujung Soekasada, water park Tirtagangga and Puri Karangasem, or even further to Amed and Tulamben beach recreation snorkeling and diving.

Process of woven fabric is indeed pure Gringsing traditionally done by skilled hands in Bali Cheap accommodation Age villages without the help of machines, just imagine the process through to annual, not surprisingly produce woven high quality and extremely expensive. Using materials as well as natural dyes from nature. Yarn spun derived from choices of kapok kapok seed in one and only exist in Nusa Penida, finished spinning the yarn will be soaked in hazelnut oil, soaking at least 40 days and can be up to 1 year and a soak oil replaced every 24-29 days, as more long thread yarn soaked it will be more soft and strong, finish this process followed by staining.

To dye the fabric weaving, used natural dyes such as yellow color of hazelnut oil that has been aged about a year, mixed with ash / powder hazelnut, red color of the petals tree (Babakan) kepundung white plus tree roots sunti while the black color of Taum tree. Threads that are ready to be woven into a fabric, in which the long side is called "feed" and a wide side is called "warp", to be more tightly woven yarns are encouraged to wear a bone bat, the next process by the binding of connective interpreter. Structuring yarn, dyeing and binding on the two sides of the weft and warp double ikat technique is called, if the usual woven only on one side, this is what caused the gringsing woven fabrics have different values.

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