Arts of Southeast Asia-Fabrics and Fabric Design
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Southeast Asia
(Fabric and Fabric Design)
THAILAND
Thai silk making is one of the finest
arts in the world, a product of a
unique manufacturing process and
bearing unique patterns and colors.
TWO TYPES OF CAMBODIAN
WEAVING
IKAT TECHNIQUE
-To create patterns, weavers tie and dye
portions of weft yarn before weaving begins.
UNEVEN TWILL
-It yields single or two-color fabrics which are
produced by weaving three threads so that the color of
one thread dominates on one side of the fabric, while
the two others determine the color on the reverse side.
Cambodian textiles have
employed natural dyes coming
from:
Insect nests-Red Dye
Indigo-Blue Dye
Prohut bark-Yellow and Green Dye
Ebony bark-Black dye
VIETNAM
Golden Thread Silks were born in
Vietnam. Many of the Vietnamese
fabrics originated from Ha Dong,
the center of weaving and
sericulture.
INDONESIA, MALAYSIA,
SINGAPORE
The fabric most common to both
countries is the Batik.
The term “Batik” is an Indonesian Malay
word, believed to be related to the
malay word “titik”, which means “point”,
“dot”, or “drop”.
TWO CATEGORIES OF
BATIK DESIGN
1.Geometric motif
2.Free from design
MALAYSIA
Two main types of Batik Produced
1. Hand painted-artist uses a canting, a
small copper container with one or more
different-sized pipes.
2. Block printed-Done by welding together
strips of metal to form a metal block. The
metal block is then dipped to metal wax
and pressed against the fabric in order to
make a pattern.
BRUNEI
Brunei’s traditional textile is also
called BATIK but it is uniquely
different from Indonesia, Malaysia,
and Singapore. It’s designs have
their national flower simpur.
BATIK IN BRUNEI CAN BE DONE IN
FOUR WAYS
1. Hand-drawn
2. Using metal blocks
3. Screen printing
4. Digital Printing
