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Thursday 10 June 2010

Traditional Clothing Melayu Jambi




Jambi Malays is a designation for those Malays who inhabit areas along the river Batang Hari, Jambi province. This designation is intended to distinguish the tribe of Malays who resided in other areas, such as Riau,South Sumatera, and so forth.

In everyday clothing initially known only fabric and sleeveless. After the process of acculturation to different cultures, everyday clothing developed into baju kurung and scarf as a head covering for women.

While the men were wearing shorts and a half segment which extends in the calves and usually black, so that freer motion in everyday activities. Clothing for men is equipped with a cap as a head covering.

In the subsequent development of the traditional outfit known. This traditional outfit is more luxurious than everyday clothes are decorated with gold thread embroidery and the use of jewelry as complementary.

Custom Men Clothing

Male rates in Jambi Malays wearing traditional dress in head tracking. Track is made of red velvet that were given in dalammnya thick paper to make it hard.

Headgear has two parts, the soaring, with higher julangan on the front. For decoration there are paintings of flora from the leaf, stem fixation and flowers that will bloom. Section to the right edge of the painting was given runci rope, which was followed by the placement of Bungo runci on the left. Bungo is white runci strung together with string, can be either original or imitation flowers.

Her dress is long sleeved baju kurung responsibility. Called responsibility because length is only slightly below the elbow does not reach the wrist. This implies a person must be agile fixation and efficient in doing any work. The material is made of red velvet are embroidered with gold thread. The middle there is a motive or a flower-strewn flower tagapo and jasmine flowers, while the sides motivated multithreading or flower bud shoots.

Bottom cover called cangge (pants). The material is still equipped with a velvet rope as a belt. In this tie kajut bonding technique was used to facilitate the opening later. Has become customary in the area of Jambi songket wear sarongs wrapped around his hips. It is said, is intended to maintain the properties, and polite honor women (consort of the king).

Close the chest is called the lotus chest, because it is shaped like a lotus flower mounted so as to resemble a circular neck collar. Second hand decorated with bracelets made of metal shoulder flash berlukiskan dyed yellow dragon. This dragon painting has meaning when someone has been given the power should not be bothered. For the nine pectoral worn chain, pearls meaningful fixation and the division of labor should be mutual help. It also symbolizes the nine lurah sepucuk Jambi.

Also bears a cross body sling made from red songket purplefish as a pair of cloth gloves with floral multithreading fixation and earrings. The waist decorated with a thin scarf pink at the tip of lobe-lobe tip yellow. To strengthen the waist is used pending a chain with a belt as a head made of metal.

Completeness is another clan dagger slippers. Keris menyerong slid to the right abdomen at the same time symbolizes the greatness of a precaution. Meanwhile, slippers or footwear shoe-shaped half serves to protect the legs when berjaalan.

Indigenous Women's Clothing

Clothing for women consisting of fixation and scarves sarongs songket songket red. Her dress is called baju kurung with gold thread embroidered bear motif jasmine flower decorations, flower tagapo, bamboo shoots and shoots.

Headdress called pesangkon made of red velvet with the inner cardboard to be hard.

Jagged shape resembles a bamboo shoot bamboo shoots or new growth. There is also a mention because of pandanus thorns on the front of this ornate headdress of yellow metal shaped pandanus thorns. To further beautify given a gold embroidered with floral jasmine burst.

This headdress is still equipped with a variety of plants, are like a banyan tree, flower cempaka, sunflower, Bungo runci, fixation and pandanus flowers. Placement of a banyan tree taller than the other flowers around pesangkon. Chrysolite flowers, sunflower, Bungo runci divided equally situated to fill the left side of the right clan. While pandanus flowers used as decoration made rear head dangle down and attached to the bun latitude.

Completed more women dress compared to that worn by men. In the women's earrings worn or rice pestle with a butterfly motif or bracelet series. Necklace consists of three types, namely footprint necklace, jayo necklace or bracelet and necklace chains nine storey. On his fingers stuffed and mounted ring ring bloodsucker deer or dragonflies.

The number of bands who wear the bracelet any more lightning shoulder covering each of the two arms. Still coupled with canoes bracelets, bangles and bracelets flat load books. All are in pairs in the arm. Special to load books bracelets made of pearls and white material. While for the legs worn bracelets and bangles Nago betapo coiled serpent. So called because its shape which resembles a sleeping dragon in a fairy tale fixation and snake curled into spheres.

While elements of the completeness of the other like lotus chest (closed chest), pending and belt (belt), scarves, and slippers almost the same as that worn man. The difference is the larger form of the motif on the chest and pending lotus.

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