LOMBOK HANDICRAFTS
Lombok main handycrafts is practically for daily use, but showing great skills and finish, traditional way to design and traditional technique to made it and natural materials. certain villages has specialize in crafts, its interested to visit one of them, take start from hand weaving village, and the second basket weaving village and ending up at pottery village.
Lombok PotteryLombok pottery is be coming well know in the world. three major villages that are famous with their pottery production are: Banyu Mulek, Penujak, and Masbagik. these villages has their own style and technique to design the pot and its was improved under aid of New Zealand government on 1991.
Lombok Hand weaving
There are two main villages hand weaving production in Lombok island is Sukarare in central Lombok and Pringga sela in east Lombok.Typical sarong and Tenun Ikat is the main product of these village. The sarong is not only comfortable to wearing but also serve as sheet, bed cover and other multitude of uses. Songket is the most complicated hand weaving usually done by women.
Lombok Mask
The main producer of Lombok mask are Labu Api, Lombok mask is easy to found in Bali art galleries and art shop, Bali is Lombok handy crafts biggest market and it's often claim as the original Bali's craft.
The mask made from local mahogany wood and other woods which are found on the island.
This village has their own style and technique to design and curving as they want to give their own identity of arts on the object. The village of Labu Api are not only known for it's mask curving only, they are produce boxes, statue painting, pottery painting, and handy crafts decoration with sea shell.
