TORAJA WOVEN FABRIC GREEN

Toraja woven fabric is a typical symbol of human engagement with nature and the environment . Toraja woven fabric is one of the heritage ancestor and still keep its preservation to this day . Toraja woven fabric does have a very high position in the Toraja culture . Woven fabric in addition play an important role in many traditional ceremonies , also serves as a symbol of prosperity and glory to the owners . In ancient times only certain people are able to have these fabrics such as nobility or the people who classified capable are economically. To be able to have these fabrics they have to replace it with farm animals such as buffalo are economically have a very high value . In the past bundle of cloth that are large used to pay taxes and as a mark of achievement of peace between of aristocratic groups warring . Some of the woven fabric-making process Toraja, of a thread until be a fabric. and threads that they spun the form of fibers, These fibers consist of two types that is exist in the form of cotton, and there is the form of pineapple fibers , but the fiber of the pineapple is already scarce, this is because its hard to find pineapple fiber now .So now, the dominant of cotton fiber . Toraja woven fabric manufacturing process very complicated because they use not machines a loom ( ATBM ) , all processes done traditionally and manual . so if we want to book weaves here. Will it takes time about two months working for a fabric . Artisans in village Toraja still produce woven, good for everyday clothing, ceremonial purposes or to sell . Toraja woven fabric can be made and sewn to serve as everyday clothing or decorating interior and exterior home .