Sarunai Batang Padi or RICE STEM flute

Sarunai Batang Padi

There is another wind instrument music instrument made ​​of rice straw which was formerly used when the current rice harvest underway. This music instrument used by society Minangkabau, West Sumatra.
Pupuik (crowbar) Bars Rice also called Sarunai Batang Padi or rice stem flute, a kind of wind instrument popular in Minangkabau. In the past when the harvest comes, whistle rice stalks join the community entertain tired after harvesting rice in the rice fields. Device is an old rice stalks that have a book. Vocal cords are made near the base of books by breaking up and grind it carefully. 

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Songket is derived from the region of West Sumatra

pandai sikek

Producing kinds of woven fabric called songket is derived from the region of West Sumatra. Unlike more way of making with what we know painted batik. When we called Clever Sikek, usually the thought is songket. Yes, this place is already synonymous with songket. In fact, the man himself did not call it clever Sikek songket but weaving. The reason, which is referred to cotton yarn and gold thread which is woven by hand, on a device called panta to become fabric, cloth or fabric balapak bacatua used baralek pie, namely at the wedding.

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Modern Batik

batik modern

On the modern batik, the motifs are not depending on the certain pattern, in contrast to the classical batik, the modern batik designs could in the form of everything, moreover occasionally used the motif of classical batik and was combined by various shape with colorful dyeing. The modern batik also use the material and process dyeing follows the material dyeing developments. On the word, the production process of the modern batik approximetly with the classical batik, but it’s design, dyeing and technical processing depends on the meker and the use of dyeing materials. Furthemore technical of batik processing expended in case of applying wx and colors, for example on the same areas, the use of the canting is not necessary; they can treat wax with brusher and some dyeing use gauzes directly. With the result that the use of technical processing batik develop in applications of other field of art, as on field of art batik painting and art batik wood. In the other word, the processing of modern batik basically almost same as clasiccal batik processing but on design and dyeing up to art of sense the maker and depend on dyeing materials.

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The culture and history of Batik

batik

The first time the batik was used as royals clothes on Java at the several centuries ago, furthermore batik become averyday clothes for Javenese community. Although the batik identical with the Javanese traditional dress, but batik has been the national dress for Indonesian community, moreover batik famed on overseas. The making use of batik had no longer the traditional dress only but it follow the fashion development all for men and women. Moreover batik have been used for interior decoration, home furnishing, etc.

Beside the fungtion of batik as clothes material, batik has depicted philosophy on the development oh the culture from the period to the period. Each batik motive depicted the culture of the period when the motive was created. Batik in the Dutch colonization period often depicted the motive feature of the flower, the foliage and small animals with clear colours. Batik in this period was made by the descendant’s women Indo-Netherlands around th 1840 that shows the influence of the Dutch culture or Europe, both in the motive and his colour.

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Tari Piriang or Plate dance Minangkabau society

tari piring

Tari Piriang,,, or plate dance from west sumatra. One characteristic of Minangkabau society dances that use the plate in both hands while dancing. Graceful movements that make that look so silent follow the rhythm rhythm of the dancers sang. At the end of the index finger was given something like a ring made ​​of wood, in order to generate sound twang. Even more exciting again when the plates are on break on the floor and on departure, jumping barefoot. Without any cuts, no pain is felt by the dancers.
This dance is unusual in the show when the wedding.
Initially used to dance when the plate was created to give offerings to the gods when entering the harvest, but after the arrival of Islam in Minangkabau dance to the offering plate is no longer the gods but for the Majlis-Majlis addressed the crowd, which was attended by the king or the Chiefs, dance plate also used in other crowded events such as the wedding ceremony.

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