COMMUNITY Banjar tribe rich in art and cultural treasures. They love beauty, do not be surprised if people are scattered in South Kalimantan has a variety of traditional artwork.
One type of art that developed in the Banjar is the art of weaving. The art of making something with the way this plaited, also included in the category of domestic crafts. The art of weaving is developed from within the family.
Not only that. Usually the art form of matting is applied to a variety of home furnishings and other Banjar community purposes.
There are many materials that can be used as a household product. But generally that is used in Banjar society is material derived from plants, such as rattan, Purun, palm leaves, jangang and so forth.
Household products produced from various materials, among others, form a mat that can be made from rattan and also Purun, Purun baskets, hats Purun, roofs of palm, which is made from the root cap jangang, and much more.
Even in line with the times and also increased creativity perpetrators of this weaving art, the works they produce are now more diverse. For example, there are few craftsmen make handbags, shoes, trash, etc. made from water hyacinth.
But from a wide range of products of the art of weaving is also produced in various other areas in Indonesia.
For certain products, such as mats, Banjar society has a distinctive motif on the basket. Banjar typical mat usually has a motive capak chess, saluang going home, and ramak sahang.
Another thing that characterizes the webbing Banjar society, usually at the end of the webbing sewn with thread to basket strong and was not open.
For Purun mat, place the manufacturing center for a lot of overgrown plants Purun, namely Batola. There is also the art of weaving a manufacturing center in Banjarmasin, one at New River, where the manufacture of diamond nevertheless.
Although now very modern times, and all household products are produced by industrial machinery, but there are some advantages in products made from this hand.
One of the advantages, of course, have artistic value and high artistic, more neat, environmentally friendly and also not all machines can do.
But the quality and the quality of webbing, of course, depends on the creativity of the maker, as submitted by one of South Kalimantan Cultural, Drs H Syamsiar Seman.
He says, creativity is crucial craftsmen this matting products. For example, the author has woven art or a new breakthrough innovation in products that will be produced in order to become more attractive.
"Creativity is crucial too. Want to be a basket of products what would be," said Syamsiar.
The man who is active in the Institute of Cultural Banjar (LBB) also say the results webbing in South Kalimantan can also be relied upon national and international arena.
"Cap jangang that of Margasari and Nagara, a material derived from plants sold to Mecca jangang there, of course this is very heartening," said Syamsiar.
Skills are usually acquired or learned weaving from generation to generation in a family or community, so there is generation of successors.
In an effort to preserve this art of weaving, some time ago, South Kalimantan Cultural Park held a variety of demonstrations and competitions are also associated with this weave.
Competition among other race Purun maolah baskets and mats also Purun. Even participants dozens of people, and they come from Banjarmasin, also Batola.
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