Buleleng Northern Lights

Hand-made Weavings from Buleleng Palace
Buleleng Regency

If you have a time to visit Kirtya Building on Jln Veteran in Singaraja, just try to go to the backyard of this building for a while. There, you can find almost 10 weavers who work hard in producing all kind of shawls, sarongs, endek and others. They work in traditional ways, complete with a stone vile to boil the ink and you will notice the sound of tenun tools, which have their own characteristic sound.

In the backyard of Kirtya Building - a building used for storing ancient Balinese literature - there is a small house temple for making hand-made cloth, which is owned by one of the Buleleng Palace family members. This handicraft is actually characteristic of the northern part of Bali, whether the pattern or the kind on cloth. A lot of visitors' want to know, how to make this hand-made cloth and usually buy a finished product.
I Gust Bagus Suelaputra, one of the Buleleng Palace family members who manages this hand-made weaving production said that the industry was established in 1955. At that time the product was named Lutung Kembar and then was changed to Sinar Nadi, also it was changed again to Puri Sinar Nadi Putra. Finally the name of this home product is Puri Hasta Kosala.
This home industry was managed from generation to generation in the Buleleng Palace areas. Formerly, Lutung Kembar (the first name of the product) was very popular, spreading the products to southern Bali or even abroad. Besides that, this home industry was also eventually visited by students and tourists. (leo)