Sulam Kasab From Aceh Darusallam

In Indonesia you can find various traditional textile such as batik, ikat weaving supplementary weft songket, embroidery such as well as beads, small seashells hanging metal item embroidered on the woven cloth. The embroidery technique is the way of how the pattern is applied to the cloth by inserting the thread by using a needle or other into the cloth. in general the skill of embroidery technique by using the sewing machine was relative new. it was imported around the beginning of 20th century.The border sewing machine produced faster and larger amount.
The are several others technique of embroidery which is called flat stitching, tusuk datar, tusuk rantai, tusuk panjang-pendek, tusuk simpul terbuka or open stitch embroidery, or Peking stitch embroidery, closed stitch embroidery or French knot embroidery.
The gold thread stitch embroidery or sulam kasab is a typical embroidery from Sumatra, it has carton based pattern, it is stitched on the pattern until it fully coverated. the tekat technique where the gold thread is layed down on the based cloth followed the shaped of pattern and stitched with normal thread to strenghten it. This tekat technique is found in West Sumatra and called suci batakaik which is means to tie the stalk.

Old thread embroidery in Aceh is called Sulam Kasab, is a typical embroidery of this region that shows a representing of the Islamic art pattern. The relationship with the Islamic countries have been known since in the reigned of Ottoman kingdom. The style geometrical pattern of spiral was stylized in the shapes of floral fern motif and flowers with curving. The best quality of gold thread were imported from the Far East countries as well as from India and China.
The coastal region of embroidery is different with the embroidery from the inner part of Aceh which is the mountain region the Tanah Gayo and Alas region. They have their own typical embroidery, using sewing machine embroidery, bordir.

Usually the sewing machine embroidery produced by male and the hand embroidery is produced by women. The Gayo and Alas pattern of bordir has Indian influenced althought it has been adjusted to the local characteristical motif.

The wedding bed or pelaminan from Aceh has their own typical embroidery called sulam tekat of gold thread enriched by beads embroidered, applied on it wedding couple sit, the curtain, the wdding decoration as well as in their wedding food covered.

picture wedding clothing in Aceh 

The Aceh embrodered are produced for large market demand all over Indonesia. They produced hand bag, wallet, headdress kopiah, as well as clothes, shawl, and others.

picture headdress kopiah Aceh 

reference : 

Gebyar Adi Kriya Sulam Indonesia

portal.cbn.net.id

www.visitaceh.com

@MissRainbow

rahmatzets.wordpress.com

forum.idws.id

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