Watublapi Village - Bliran sina Ikat Group

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  Ibuikat (guest)

  The Ikatsarong from Group Bliran Sina will be colored only with natural color and mostly weaving with handspon cotton. The leader of the group is David Daniel. Near 20 year ago he was my translater, when our "yayasan" from Germany "Für Frauen in Flores e.V. was beginnig to install a women group there. We ordered ikat goods and sell it in all big Museums in Germany, like Hamburg, Munich, Stuttgart and so on. In the first time the ikats will be colored with chemical color, but the women get allergy and the poisonous water killed in time a lot of fruit trees. This was the beginning for remembering of the old tradition of natural color. Now our group is a member of the best weaving groups in Indonesia. The women get money, and our vision, that all children, the girls also can go to school will be reach. Every year I myself stay for some month there and 2 years ago we opened our 2. project,cracking Cashew-Nuts. NGO Swisscontact gave the instruction. If everybody want to work with us, her our e-mail: ikat-wallner@arcor.de. We will be happy about some mails. Thanks Bärbel Wallner "Für Frauen in Flores e.V."

  16 years ago | reply | hide comment