Pandaisikek Tradisonal Weaving
Who does not know with songket cloth? Songket fabric - fabric typical Minangkabau earth, able to amaze the eyes of the beholders. In addition to the stunning color yarn, weaving was very complicated. High expertise required to make songket cloth. Fortunately the expertise to make songket is not just disappear. There are still people who bequeath Minang this intelligence. But these skills need to be preserved in order not to disappear into the mouths of the time.
Now, we can see how the songket cloth in place of the original. Can not believe? For example there is a village in the area of ​​Padang Panjang that songket weaving livelihood. The village is known as a Pandai Sikek, Tana Flat, District Ten Koto, Koto New Village. Location of the village was not difficult to find. When you come from the city of Padang, located a short distance after passing through the Anai Valley before entering the town of Bukit Tinggi - about 15 minutes from Anai Valley.
Pandaisikek is to the left of the road. Do not get too far. Note the street sign, because we have to go about one mile into. Afterwards, we found a number of shops selling songket cloth. There is also a straight weave in there complete with weaving tools. Not only songket course, other crafts typical Minang also made in the village is like sculpting, embroidery and needlepoint.
Songket fabric consists of three types of yarn one, two and four, the price was much different. One thread is much more expensive than the threads of two and four, because the time required to weave it longer. Not only that, make songket one type of yarn is required for high accuracy in the weave, the thread must be inserted strand by strand. As for the yarn approximately two to three weeks of processes and threads penenunannya four just two weeks.
Motif fabric called "cukie" for weavers in Pandaisikek. That is, a pattern that fills the parts of the fabric. For example, certain cukie fabric chosen for the agency, other cukie to head cloth and some common motifs or patterns used to but the edge of the cloth, and several other motifs that are commonly used to restrict biteh among several motifs. 're Being called Sungayang motif, which meant the overall pattern fabric.
According to the literature, in the vicinity of Padang Panjang formerly the women weave and wear traditional clothes are woven and decorated with gold thread. Woven fabric has a subtle motifs and have specific names, the names of the motive was unknown until now in Pandai Sikek in part though a slight modification or simplification of the name, for example: Cukie barantai, Cukie bakaluak, Bungo Cukie Cape, Cukie kaluak nails, Cukie barayam ridge tops, Cukie barayam ropes birds, Cukie kaluak, Lintadu bapatah and Cukie bugis barantai
If observed from the results, for a single thread songket is more subtle and supple while two somewhat decent yarn but have lost elasticity, more rigid, which have a certain type of thread let alone four, looks very stiff and thick. This is caused more and more threads are used more and more rigid songket produced. Songket weaving motif with four threads so big because once put four strands of yarn threads concurrently.
Seeing the beauty of this fabric weaving culture rightly preserved. It's nothing, when a complaint arises, the kids today rarely anyone want to be a weaver of cloth. If anything, just wants an easy and quick finish. In fact, songket weaving Pandai Sikek be patient, thorough, and diligent. If not, then the thread will break that could eventually lower the quality of the fabric. Patience is what young people do not possess now.
Pandai Sikek songket weaving is done entirely by hand. The tools used are generally made of traditional natural materials such as wood and bamboo. Barely used metallic materials such as iron.
The main tool is called Panta. This tool is a construction of wood measuring 2 x 1.5-meter stretch the yarn to be woven. Basic yarn called the warp or warp, also called the Smart Sikek tagak if this is the backup threads are rolled on reels and mounted on a charcoal pig in a distant part of the Panta.
Working groups possess a sort of weaving was sitting on a bench at the base of this Panta. In front, there are two wooden poles that support the paso places that have been woven cloth will be rolled up. Thus the warp stretched between the rolls with paso and among which there are one pair and one faint Karok depending on tandayan. On the left and right hung a place to store skoci weavers weft yarns and skoci mas. Skoci is called Turak and made of bamboo.
To songket one type of yarn, worth 350 thousand dollars for a shawl cloth has not added his subordinates, could total one million dollars (minimum). As for the threads of two released at a price 250 for a single strand of scarves, to full (with cloth subordinate) can be up to 850 thousand's. Another case with four threads, 175 per piece shawl, for details can be up to 500 thousand's. Macau yarn using yarn, original types of yarn from India.
Not only that, the wall hangings of songket cloth is also available, with a length of 50 cm and width 30 cm, sold at a price of USD 110 thousand. Stay equipped with its frame, be a beautiful wall hangings. Here also are available that have been put into his frame. Do not want to put into the frame? Options may fall to the hanger is made of carved, live outboard on the wall and enter the songket fabric you like. Not to mention if you wear it and mematutkan yourself in the mirror, beautiful is not it? (Rn)