Burgundy Ulos si Rara/Tenun Ikat from Northern Sumatra

Description

Stunning Burgundy Ulos si Rara Textile from the Lake Toba region of North Sumatra. The Ulos is spun with a manual looming machine, using Cotton and natural coloring water made of barks, grass, roots, mud or leaves. At first, Ulos was only used as an ordinary cloth. But it later developed to a symbol of love, traditional ceremony requirements, and society structural system symbol. Even Ulos is believed to have magical religious power and thus considered 'sacred' and that it has special power to protect the user.
There are many kinds and motives of Ulos, which have their own respective meaning in accordance to the characteristic, condition, function, and some relation. When it is used given to whom, and which traditional ceremony like wedding, birth, death and other rituals will never run without Ulos. It can be used a Bed Cover, Credenza Cover or as Wall Decor. The length of the textile measures 56" and the width is 24.".