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Traditional textile producers encouraged to adapt style that lure millennials
Chairwoman of the Traditional Textile Arts Society of Southeast Asia (TTASSEA) Gusti Kanjeng Bendara Raden Ayu Adipati (GKBRAA) Pakualam said that younger generations needed to be exposed to traditional textiles to show them that the traditional products were also very good and beautiful.
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Full row of various hand-woven Songket textile (Shutterstock/Ezz Mika Elya)
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raditional textile producers in Yogyakarta should adjust to today’s designs, styles and materials in order to win the hearts of the millennial generation, said the chairwoman of the Traditional Textile Arts Society of Southeast Asia (TTASSEA), Gusti “Gusti Putri” Kanjeng Bendara Raden Ayu Adipati Pakualam on Tuesday.
Gusti Putri conveyed the call on the sidelines of the seventh ASEAN Traditional Textile Symposium (ATTS) and Expo co-organized by the TTASSEA at Royal Ambarrukmo Hotel in Yogyakarta from Monday to Friday, which takes “Embracing Change, Honoring Tradition” as its theme.
“We cannot stop changes. They have to be there, but we also have to respect tradition,” she told journalists covering the opening ceremony of the event on Tuesday.
Some 200 participants from Indonesia and abroad are participating in the symposium, which is presenting 23 speakers from 16 countries: the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Japan, Korea, China, Spain, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Brunei Darussalam, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand.
Supporting activities include a traditional textile exposition, a photography competition, a traditional textile craft competition and field tours to a number of cultural sites and traditional textile production centers and galleries.
Gusti Putri said that younger generations needed to be exposed to traditional textiles to show them that the traditional products were also very good and beautiful.
To impress them, she added, the products needed to be made up-to-date both in terms of motifs, styles and materials so as not to make them feel outdated when being worn or otherwise used.
