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Textile
Museum of Bali
Development of Textile Industry
Just about all regencies and city across
Bali have traditional weaving industries,
but their existence is plunged away. Centres
of weaving home industry in Bali can be
found at Ungasan, Tegal, Kesiman and Carangsari
Village (Badung). In Tabanan, it still exists
at Umadiwang and Peken Village, while in
Jembrana, it can be found at Dauh Waru,
Yeh Kuning and Sangkar Agung Village.
Meanwhile, the Gianyar Regency has its centres
at Sukawati, Blahbatuh, Pejeng, Beng Village
and Gianyar city; the Bangli Regency at
Jehem, Trunyan and Bangli Village; the Klungkung
Regency at Gelgel, Manduan, Satria, Dawan,
Sampalan, Nusa Penida, Sulang Village, Municipality
of Semarapura, Tigas, Gunaksa, Bucu, Paksabali
and Hamlet of Kangin Selisihan; the Karangasem
regency at Sidemen, Tenganan Pegeringsingan,
Budakeling, Seraya, Besakih and Amlapura
city and the City of Denoasar at its East
Denpasar sub district.
Should you wish to contact the craftsmen
in person, you can go to the villages mentioned
above, but if you have limited time on your
visit in Bali, just go to the Building Unit
III at third floor, Bali Province Culture
Department in Renon—Denpasar. It enables
you to have a closer look at the diversity
and uniqueness of Balinese textiles.
This building retains `a number of attractive
traditional woven clothes that permanently
and coincidently serves as the Textile Museum
of Bali. As a museum, it also records every
single development of the textile industry
in Bali through the ages, starting from
the ancient times till today.
Through this museum, the community and textile
enthusiasts in Bali, can observe 97 collections
of Balinese traditional textiles of which
all of them belong to the Museum of Bali.
The group arrangement of the collection
is based on category of the fabrics in terms
of its technique of the making, ornament
and function.
Such collections comprise the plain, rare,
checkered, bebali, keling, endek, cepuk,
geringsing, songket and prada. All collections
are carefully kept in display cases together
with information of the name, year of the
making, size, origin and brief description
on the use of respective cloth.
At the same place you can also see the display
of the traditional ‘cagcag’
weaving tool and materials used to make
traditional clothes such as cotton fibre
and natural colouring agent applied as well
as customary fashion from regencies/city
throughout Bali.
The majority of the traditional woven fabrics
on show were made in the 1930s to 1940s.
Uniquely, there occurs an ancient cloth
named kamben wangsul from Nusa Penida, Klungkung
that was used on the sacrament of three-month
rite for a baby. (BTN/015)
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