Electronic music sound breaks the silence of the Selomangleng Cave, Kediri City during the annual degree of Doho Street Fashion. From the back of the trees of a number of models running alternately wearing the shirts of the raw weaving fabric. While in other angles some weaving tools are not the machine (ATBM) is partly used to weave. Doho Street Fashion is a local regional government efforts to promote Kediri’s signature looms.
Weaving is a medium small micro business excellence product (UMKM) City of Kediri. One of the only in the village of Bandar Kidul where weaving with various motifs is produced. A little of 14 craftsmen with 10 brands in the region also famous for the name of Kampung Woven Bond Bandar Kidul. Not only offer woven fabrics or finished disposable products, in this place visitors can see the process directly until trying to weave.
Traditional weaving making through long and long process. There are 14 stages, starting from the process of warp or kenteng, yarn dyeing, thread spinning, skeer or thread rolling, grayen (yarn connector), white thread spinning as base, reek (forming thread), pattern design through binding, dyeing, colet, rope discharge, thread decompose, thread spinning on pallet and weaving process to become fabric.
Workers connect threads when cotton thread spinning process.
The craft of looms in the village of Woven Tie Bandar Kidul connects the cotton thread on the weaving tool instead of the machine (ATBM).
The production of tie looms in Kediri experienced a pair of massage and has reached the glory of the 1950s when a Chinese entrepreneur who is able to hire hundreds of surroundings with loom products.
In 1985, the success of tie looms experienced a decrease due to the emergence of modern weaving machines that are able to produce quickly with cheaper valuable manufacturer loom products. In 1965 was forced to stop production due to national political golfers. Then the majority of looms have lived in the territory of Bandar Kidul started the looming effort with the shank skills as long as the loomer and become the expertise of down findings up to now.
Now the Bandar Kidul loom village again lazy, not only limited to producing gloves. Various products derivatives of fabric looms are born here, such as foaming with complete models of novelty with bags, scarves, to weaving shoes.
The number of colorful threads is hung when the drying process of dyeing liquid dyeing.
The work of dyeing yarn into the dye liquid that has previously been tied in such a way.
Local governments sustainably do mentoring and training for production progress without leaving traditional ways using ATBM. Like coloring training, weaving motif design competition, bag making training from woven fabric, to marketing process.
The government’s support for the development of Bandar Kidul’s Weaving Village is not only up to the situ, through the annual event of Doho Street Fashion strives to display the derivative products from the long tie weaving from ancient impressions. The famous national designer is involved to design the foam displayed on the activity. Foaming tape weaving is also supplied with other betras such as batik fabric.
Weaving is a must-use foam every day wes by the State Civil Aparatur (ASN) and a number of other private institutions as an effort to absorb the production of weaving craftsmen. Now, tie weavings are not only identical to old-year taste looms. The tie weaving has gone into a high value prestisius foam and young children are not shy again using the weaving even proud of having and coexisting.
The craft drawing on the thread palette when the design process of weaving motifs in Kampung Woven Bond Bandar Kidul Kediri.
The bag manufacturing workshop made by raw fabric ikat which was held by the government of Kediri City.
Photo and text: Prasetia Fauzani
The number of weaving fabric-based shoes that can be used in various activities.
Model carrying bag made woven fabric brush when doho Street Fashion foaming.
The number of models wearing foamed looms typical Kediri on the annual activities of Dhohoho Street Fashion in Gua Selomangleng.
The state civil apparatus (ASN) wears a tie weaving fabric in the Kediri City Hall area.
Editor : Prasetyo Utomo
