Woven Pattern Ideas

Woven craft is one of the riches of Indonesian traditional art. This craft lives among tribes in Indonesia with various beautiful forms and diverse functions. Compared to the development of art, other traditions of woven crafts have a slow development.

In the beginning, the development of woven crafts has a simple form and only to fulfill practical needs, however, the latest development of this craft has appeared in various variants which are very beautiful and used not only as a maker of practical necessities but also as decorative items, accessories tools for personal needs, fashion accessories, etc. This development shows that woven art has great potential as a creative industry commodity with high aesthetic and economic value.

Woven crafts include two- or three-dimensional applied fine arts. Three-dimensional shape because of the form of woven art that has three sizes, namely length, width and volume. Intact objects and can be seen in all directions. While it can be called two dimensions because the shape of objects that can be produced from webbing can be flat sheets.

The materials that are often used in this weaving craft include: first, natural materials such as: bamboo, mendong rattan, pandanus, and other natural materials that are flexible and strong such as rattan, enceng gendok, roots, midrib banana, pandan, bamboo, mendong, penjalin, purun, sepet (coconut fiber) etc. The second ingredient is artificial / synthetic materials such as: paper, plastic rope, plastic waste, cord, fabric, agel, scout rope, etc. While the types of weaving motifs produced are very numerous, such as braid motifs, walik eyes, duck eyes, pegs and so on.

Woven craft can be a scout training material especially to develop students' creativity. At the standby level can be trained in two-dimensional woven crafts, while at the level of raisers, enforcers and Pandegas in addition to being trained to master the two-dimensional woven art is also trained to master the three-dimensional woven art. Even at the level of enforcement of the pandega handicraft art can be introduced as a creative industrial product by means of the pandega enforcers being trained to be able to produce product designs, ways of production, ways of marketing and how to calculate the economics / business scale of this handicraft-based creative industry.

Crafting of Woven from Paper

The art of weaving paper is the beginning or basis of training to be able to weave into various materials, various shapes and functions. In other words, the art of weaving on paper is a training tool for students to improve weaving skills, develop beauty expressions and conduct trials to utilize the art of plaiting for the production of practical needs needed in everyday life.