By Sam Brier
Easy methods to construct conversations and the way to learn and write the creative Lao script, with Lao fundamentals as your consultant. during this creation, ômore with much lessö quite works. every one web page deals a delicately measured variety of phrases, words and buildings. in just ninety six pages you will achieve an excellent grounding in Lao.
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For example, if the desired design is a red flower on a blue background, wax is first applied to the area that will become the flower. The white cloth is then immersed in blue dye and dried. After drying, the wax which covered the flower pattern is scraped from the cloth. Because the wax resisted the blue dye, there is now a white flower on a blue background. To make the flower red, the blue background is then covered with wax and the entire cloth is immersed in red dye. When the wax is scraped from the cloth for a second time, a red flower emerges on a blue background.
In a tropical, humid climate such as Java, batik was ideal. As a costume, it was ingenious because batik demanded no zippers, buttons, or pins. ). A sarong has a "body," or badan, and a "head," or kepala. The badan is about threequarters the length of the sarong. The kepala is a wide perpendicular band, usually in the middle or at the end of the sarong. Sometimes the kepala has two rows of equilateral triangles running down each side with the points of the triangles facing each other, much like a backgammon board; this design is called a tumpal The dodot, made by sewing two lengths of batik together, is a prerogative of royalty; dodots are usually worn only by the sultan, a bride or groom, or dancers at the courts, and are usually of unsurpassed quality.
Often the perimeter has finely drawn stripes, imitating a real fringe. A kemben is a "breast cloth," which is a narrow batik wrapped around the upper part of the body used to secure a kain or sarong. It is worn instead of a kebaya (a long-sleeved blouse usually decorated with lace and embroidery) or sometimes under the kebaya. Kain Panjang Pagi-Sore Sarong 34 Selendang Iket Kepala Iket Kepala Kemben Dodot Kain Panjang 35 Cotton for Sale—and to Wear C otton had been grown and spun in India for five thousand years, and by the middle of the fourteenth century it was probably the most important medium of exchange among Muslim, Hindu, and Arab traders.