Traditional clothing from Aceh (Gayo clothing)

Traditional clothing from Aceh (Gayo)

Traditional wedding dress Gayo, Aceh Tenggara, explores the wealth of white thread embroidery technique, red, yellow and green. Menswear known as Safe mayak clothes, women's clothing called Ineun mayak.

The groom wearing a headdress pengkah, which also functions where the plug change. Another element is a white shirt, tangang, string bracelet on the arm, rings, sarongs, flirtatious rante, pants, ie, a kind of hump dagger tucked in the waist.

Sempol easy bun with a particular form Sempol easy bulleted used at the ceremony, and there are other forms Sempol easy kemang used for 10 days after the marriage ceremony. Edit the kind of crown it is a patchwork arrangement of colorful wax paper as a symbol of grandeur or elegance. Men and women clothes men's clan usually black pants. While such a songket sarong is called concave upuh bakasap.

Elements ornate clothing that is upuh ulen-ulen, openwork shirt dress, clan ketawak. Decorative motifs that always appear on all three elements of this outfit is: But go or however successive (clouds), shoot of bamboo shoots (shoot of bamboo shoots), puter rope (double helical), peger (fence), Matan lo (sun), Wen (months). Motives But leaving is a symbol of unity or agreement; shoot bamboo shoot means a firm bond; puter rope meaningful harmony or mutual grace; peger fixation and resilience meaningful order; Matan lo and ulen is the power that illuminates the universe, including man himself.

Motives over sewn with white thread, red, yellow, and green on a black background on the shawl upuh ulen-ulen. Unless the sun motif clan month, other motives also poured on the woman's dress with a black background. Motifs in Stagen ketawak pink background fabric or red brick. Later the background fabric into place pour motif was highly variable, depending on your taste tailor, for example blue, yellow, red, brown etc. clan. Element clothing was no longer for a traditional ceremony such as marriage, but are used in the other official ceremonies.

These developments have a tendency as to strengthen the identity or ethnic pride. Such clothes worn by officials in receiving distinguished guests who came from outside the area, such as ministers. Distinguished guests were welcomed dancers who use "traditional dress" clothes with covered upuh Ketawang ulen-ulen earlier. Usually the honored guest or guests - great diselimutkan also with custom cloth-ulen upuh ulen best quality. Giving this as a symbol of high respect as well as a sincere expression of acceptance from the public.

At the end of this period more nuanced traditional fabric crafts industry is encouraged by the local government clan developed into household handicraft industry. Motives were not simply poured on the clothing, but has already appeared on the cap, bags, purses, tablecloths, cushions, other clans. This development is felt more and solidify cultural identity.

The results of a craft that appears in various items before, which is known with openwork Gayo chance to get attention outside of Gayo. That caused the growth of industry "Kerawang Gayo" outside the Gayo region, for example in Banda Aceh, Medan, Jakarta and the results appear in a variety of souvenir shops in various cities in Indonesia.

Source: id.wikipedia.org