Explore: Batak Textile Fabrics

Sulawesi among Batak, Dayak and Toraja tribes. Ulos, a traditionally hand-woven cotton fabrics, and intricately patterned, specific to Batak tribes of North

Southeast Asia used to pattern textiles that employs resist dyeing on the yarns prior to dyeing and weaving the fabric. In Southeast Asia, where it is

and has light fabrics, this was meant to provide pleasant and cooler clothing in hot and humid tropical climate, since dark colored fabrics attract and

Indians use resist-dyeing with cotton fabrics. Initially, wax and even rice starch were used for printing on fabrics. Until recently batik was made only

Ulos is the traditional tenun fabric of the Batak people of North Sumatra in Indonesia. The ulos is normally worn draped over the shoulder or shoulders

the Textile Museum by Madame Tien Soeharto. The textile museum exhibits many kinds of Indonesian traditional weaving such as Javanese batik, Batak ulos

Songket or sungkit is a tenun fabric that belongs to the brocade family of textiles of Brunei, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It is hand-woven in silk or cotton

 1222). Red and white textile colouring was available in ancient Indonesia. White is the natural colour of woven cotton fabrics, while red is one of the

textiles of Indonesia is diverse; from bark-cloth of Eastern Indonesia to intricately woven tenun fabrics from Sumba. Examples of Indonesian textiles

a wide range of products. They still continue to influence a number of textile traditions and artists. In the 1970s for example, batik was introduced