If you like, you can visit the Tenun Ikat Museum Ende if you like to learn how to make traditional clothes from Ende. Tenun ikat is a traditional cloth that is made with a traditional tool called Tenun. Before you go to the best place to visit in Ende, you should continue to read more information about this place below.
Tenun Ikat Museum’s location
How to reach Tenun Ikat Museum Ende? The Ende Ikat Weaving Museum is in the area of a traditional house in the city of Ende, Jalan Soekarno. This museum is easy to find because this museum is less than 150 meters from the city park. You can get to this location using various modes of transportation. When you travel to Ende by using a travel agent, it is simple for you to arrange your visit to this museum. Your travel agent will make a schedule to visit this place. Formerly, this place was known as the Rocket Field, where you can see various art attractions. Now it has become a museum area because, apart from the Ikat Weaving Museum, there is also a Maritime Museum. The museum building is made of planks, and the model is a stilt house. What will you see when you are in this museum?
What to Do in the Museum Tenun Ikat
When you visit this museum, you can see and learn about traditional tools to make traditional clothes. You can see so many patterns of clothes. Each pattern has its color and meaning. As seen from the color, which tends to be dark and brownish due to the natural coloring process. In addition, each motif tells us the customs and beliefs of the local community. Like the elephant motif on the Zawo Nggaja Soke Mata Mere cloth, which is made with a combination of warp ties and simple weaving techniques. Elephants are believed to be the favorite animals of the gods. You can find cloth describes the traces of immigrants from Indo-China to the Land of Flores, NTT. The pattern is smooth but dense because it consists of motifs and decorations, another uniqueness of Ende ikat weaving.
Unfortunately, not all people like to wear this traditional clothing. People think that the price of traditional clothing is too pricey. Because of this fact, the government in Ende built the Tenun Ikat museum Ende to visit and to give information about how to make traditional clothes. As part of the cultural heritage, Ende ikat weaving from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) needs to be preserved. This archipelago literature may become extinct shortly if the community and the government do not work together to preserve it. You can now make a plan to visit Tenun Ikat Museum Ende.
