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Woven Tie from Waingapu, East Sumba has a very important role for the life of the local community, the community made Woven Tie itself to be used in everyday life or for sale to others. initially made Woven Tie as an important fixture in the custom event, like a wedding or a coronation ceremony.

When it is more advanced, Woven Tie be used by anyone, and Woven Tie has become material for handicrafts, such as handbags, scarves, and clothing. Craft of weaving is called Woven Tie Waingapu because before woven, thread tied up into multiple bond is then given color following the specified pattern. To produce a typical Waingapu Woven Tie is not easy and requires a long time.

For the yarn dyeing process only requires a gradual process and it takes patience. In rainy season, weavers usually start with a binding thread, form a motif, as well as preparing natural dyes. Usually, they make the red color of the roots of Morinda citrifolia leaves mixed with greed and for the green color made of green substance. They will begin the process of dyeing yarn in the dry season, because after dyed, yarn tied it must be dried in the sun. To produce a good fruit color, most are not required up to four times the dyeing process. Even then, the results of staining must be reprocessed and dried for some time. The colored yarn, then the bond is opened and thread yarn for weaving described one by one.

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Women Waingapu then weave these threads to be a piece of woven cloth using a traditional loom made of wood. Because of a long process and it took quite a long time that, I wonder if people say Waingapu typical price Woven Tie Waingapu relatively expensive, even up to millions of dollars. According to residents there for them when the day creating a piece of yarn, cloth a year. So it would be rather expensive. Craftsmen in East Sumba Woven Tie generally produce fabric with motifs of animals and plants, such as shrimp, turtles, crocodiles, and grandmother trees, one tree species that can be found in the area of ??East Sumba.


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