When sewn together, this created what is now the kepala, and eventually the two bands of triangles were positioned as a set at the end of the pre-sewn batik sarong. Traders brought chintzes from the Coromandel Coast of eastern India whose ends were rows of triangles. One of the earliest panel configurations in batik sarongs of the north coast of Java and Madura is two rows of triangles ( tumpal) whose points face each other. In a plaid, this panel may vary in color and/or weave. What makes the cloth produced for sarongs unique is the decorative panel ( kepala, head) that contrasts with the rest of the fabric ( badan, body), seen at the front when lapped over and secured. ![]() Early sea traders in these waters were Moslems from India, and Islam spread from the coastal areas, so it is thought that these early sarongs may have been woven plaids, which were associated with Moslem men. In the late nineteenth century, an observer recorded its absence in the Java interior. The sarong was the dress of the seafaring peoples of the Malay Peninsula near Sumatra and Java according to Gittinger, it was subsequently introduced on the island of Madura and along the north coast of Java. ![]() Enveloped about a person, the sarong serves as a blanket against cool nights. Male laborers in T-shirts and shorts hike it at their hips or wear it over their shoulder like a sash when working, only to wear it about their legs on the return home. For women it might be secured under the arms to sleep in or to walk to the river for a bath. In this way, hip to ankle are covered.Īs a multipurpose garment, the sarong is worn in other ways as well. The wearer steps into a sarong, secures it at the hip (or under the arms, a variant for women) either by lapping both ends to meet in the center or by pulling the sarong taut at one side of the body and lapping the remaining fabric to the front, and then rolling the top down and tucking it in or tying the ends in a knot. The Southeast Asian sarong is typically made of mill-woven cloth and is about 100 centimeters high and up to 220 centimeters in circumference. As a result, in the Western hemisphere the sarong has come to be defined in popular usage as a cloth wrap-per, not as a tube. ![]() Hollywood's appropriation of the sarong has imbued it with exotic and erotic overtones and reinterpreted it as a wrapper rather than a tube. It is made in a variety of fabrics, including woven plaids, batik, warp ikats, songkets, or silk plaid and/or silk weft ikats. In Indonesia the sarong is an item of everyday dress as well as an essential component of formalized ethnic dress. Both men and women in Indonesia and other parts of Southeast Asia wear it. The sarong is a wrapper sewn together into a tube.
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