Works of Arts comes in many forms. Textile is one of the many. The one that are hand woven are unique in itself for they can never be two alike. If you own a piece of this hand woven material especially the traditional one, you would surely have one of a kind. Just like the Tenun Pahang or The Pahang Weaving textile. A sarong of a sort now made into textile that could be turn into a fine lady dress and other apparels as well as table clothes, tie, handkerchief and other souvenir items. It is actually a part of a tradition that had evolve in times. The Tenun Pahang, once the exclusive for man has now became a designed fashion textile, that is unique. It still retained that traditional Malay sarong touch. It is a textile that is made famous by the Royal House of Pahang in the Royal town of Pekan, Pahang...
While in Kuantan the other day we decided to visit the house that churn these intricate piece of traditional sarong that had been use with pride by the Royal House of Pahang for centuries and now with the government getting involved more of these once exclusive sarong are made available to the public. There is this little house at Kampong Soi, just off Tanjung Lumpur where a group of young ladies sat to work weaving the sarong the traditional ways. They still use the traditional wooden weaving hand loom of another era. Patiently they works manually with their hands and feet to woven the cloth with intricate design. At the end of the day turning it into a gorgeous piece of materials. Another works of Arts. Keeping the tradition alive...
This intricate woven cloth in the past could only be got at Pekan, the Royal Town of the State of Pahang. History has it that the art of making this special textile that are only worn by the royal came from faraway land of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Sulawesi is the home of the seafaring Bugis who had travel all over the Malay archipelagoes and one group that is lead by a Bugis aristocrats reach the shore of a new found land on the east coast of then Malaya and eventually settled at the royal town of Pekan. Today these fine textile could be got at the state own gallery at the Teruntun Complex in Kuantan. [ to enlarge the images above click on it ]
While in Kuantan the other day we decided to visit the house that churn these intricate piece of traditional sarong that had been use with pride by the Royal House of Pahang for centuries and now with the government getting involved more of these once exclusive sarong are made available to the public. There is this little house at Kampong Soi, just off Tanjung Lumpur where a group of young ladies sat to work weaving the sarong the traditional ways. They still use the traditional wooden weaving hand loom of another era. Patiently they works manually with their hands and feet to woven the cloth with intricate design. At the end of the day turning it into a gorgeous piece of materials. Another works of Arts. Keeping the tradition alive...
This intricate woven cloth in the past could only be got at Pekan, the Royal Town of the State of Pahang. History has it that the art of making this special textile that are only worn by the royal came from faraway land of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Sulawesi is the home of the seafaring Bugis who had travel all over the Malay archipelagoes and one group that is lead by a Bugis aristocrats reach the shore of a new found land on the east coast of then Malaya and eventually settled at the royal town of Pekan. Today these fine textile could be got at the state own gallery at the Teruntun Complex in Kuantan. [ to enlarge the images above click on it ]
Thank you. Im a batik sarong collector myself. I own a couple of hand woven. They are truly unique pieces. Thanks for the post.
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