Beautiful Woven From Sukarara – Lombok

What is the interesting thing in Lombok besides beatiful beach? Woven. Woven fabric can be found in almost every souvenir shop on Lombok Island because Lombok is producer of unique quality fabrics. One manufacturer of weaving centers is Sukarara Village. In Sukarara, woven fabric is the product of home industry, not a large plant commodities. Almost every house in the village population of 150 head of the family had a loom. Even so, professional weavers engaged in the only true Eve. They usually weave in front porch, they do this activity during the day while waiting for their husbands returning from the fields. Local tradition has confirmed the role of women: in weddings, women are required to provide a homemade fabric to the couple.Why professional weavers engaged only women can also be explained in economic terms: a wife who could support the economy is expected to weave the family when the harvest failed.
Because only rely on simple machines, weaving process generally lasts pretty long. It takes at least a month to produce a piece of cloth with a width of 1.2 meters long and two meters. The complexity of motives and types of yarn fabrics in the market determines the price-average rates ranging from IDR100,000 to IDR 5 million per sheet.