WEAVING THE WEEDS THAT ARE SOAKING

Weaving is a typical fabric of Kediri City. The traditional fabric has a fairly long history, such as the origin of the city of Kediri who is the old kingdom with a variety of cultural wealth. In his history, weavings have been present before Indonesia is independent or in the reign of the Kingdom of Kediri around 11?13. A Dutch historian, Gerrit Pieter Rouffaer who conducts fabric research in Indonesia said, that the gringsing pattern or the technique of the brushing dobel where the pattern can only be formed using a canting tool, is already known and used since the 12th century.

The history of looms in Kediri began to develop was started by Thionghoa’s descendants in 1950s by opening a business that has about 200 looms and hundreds of craftsmen. The business continues to grow along with the development of trades with the origin of Madagascar, China, India, China and Arabic to experience jaya period 1960-1970. But over time, the glory of looms tied up the goal of massage in 1985, when the New Orde policy under President Soeharto imported hundreds of modern weaving machines so? The appearance of weaving fabric and batik weaving the result of the factory, with the production speed that exceeds the ATBM machine (Nonwoven Fabric Machine) and the price of the factory weaving fabric is sold at a cheaper price, so make the weaving crafter is not the less competitive machine.

Now, weaving craftsmen is not a centralized machine in Bandar Kidul Village in Mojoroto District, Kediri City, East Java. The location is not far from the square of the City of Kediri or is only limited by the Brantas River. Approximately 20 looms in the village are flat ? flat done down to three generations. The fabric produced from gombyor glove fabric, misrison fabric (custom), semi silk, to silk. The fabric is made colorful with the Kediren motifs such as ceplok to the warp. Now weaving products that are labeled by Sinar Barokah are already known in various regions to outside Java Island.

The process of weaving using this fine thread passes through two process of workmanship with 14 stages. The manufacturing process of warp or tile through four stages, dyeing, spinning, skeer or rolling threads in booms and grayen processes or connecting threads. The second process is a white thread spinning, reek or aligning threads in the field, design, binding, dyeing, colet, strap discharge, decompose yarn, spinning in the pallet and the latter is the weaving process.

At Bandar Kidul, weaving process should not be done in industrial flashlights. The business owner empowers people around to engage in the preservation of looms by freeing citizens to work on their homes as they have. Preservation is not only limited to empowering citizens around the industrial flashlight. The title of Dhono Street Fashion became the efforts of the Kediri City government to further introduce the looms of Kediri. One of them by displaying more casual and fashionable weavings to approach the weaving value to millenial generation.

Photo and Text : Predipta Gover