Study of the Existence of Traditional Textile for Local People of Tuban District, Kerek Subdistrict, East Java

Study of the Existence of Traditional Textile for Local People of Tuban District, Kerek Subdistrict, East Java

Author		: FAJAR CIPTANDI
Published on	: The 3rd International Conference on Creative Industry

Abstract

Textile according to local people of Tuban sub district, Kerek District, East Java, Indonesia is not merely an ordinary body cover, but an object contains of myth and spiritual values that closely relates to a representation towards ???Life Cycle??? appreciation consists of processes of birth, life and death. The way people of Kerek appreciate the life cycle is by describing it through visualization on their traditional textile made by batik (a technique to make motifs on fabrics using color resistance called wax) technique. Their knowledge of colour is a basic knowledge that represents a concept of philosophy of life, where life starts with white colour that represents absence concept; red and blue represent life; and death is represented by black which means immortality. But nowadays, there is a shift that urges the existence of the tradition to change, like the coming of Islam, industrialization and postmodern issues. This causes part of the identity value that attaches to them gradually replaced by the new culture. It seems that they accept and face an old culture with a totally different appreciation at the beginning. Through a descriptive method there is attempted to comprehend the meaning and function of Sayut (a long cloth wrapped around one???s body to cover up the extent of the chest to ankle) and Jarit (a long cloth tied to shoulder for shoring the luggage load) in tradition context as well as its existence in present context.