ARTS AND CRAFTS OF SOUTHEAST ASIAN COUNTRIES

Southeast Asian arts

  • religious belief and are often expressed natural scenes and themes from their aesthetic tradition.

THAILAND

Thai silk

  • cocoons of Thai silkworms

  • one of the finest arts in the world

SKY LANTERN

  • made from oiled rice paper on a bamboo frame

  • Thai name is khom loi

  • Loy Krathong Festival

WAT PHO

  • Bangkok

  • largest temple complexes in the city

  • giant reclining Buddha that is 46 meters long and 15 meters high

  • plaster on a brick core and finished in gold leaf

LAOS

  • their history was not passed on orally, it was woven

  • traditions are shown and reflected in most intricate dense patterns and motifs of textiles.

  • mbroidered textiles and the production of woven

Color

  • important to textiles

Sihn

  • Lao women’s ankle-long skirt

CAMBODIA

  • Silk weaving in Cambodia dates to as early as the late 13th century were women only weave cotton from Kapok

Kapok

  • a tropical tree, since none of the locals produces silk

Cambodian weaving has two main types:

Ikat technique

  • quite complex

  • produces patterned fabric which is diverse and vary by region.

  • weavers tie-dye portions of weft yarn before weaving begins.

Uneven twill

  • yields single or two-color fabrics

  • produced by weaving three threads so that the color of one thread dominates on one side of the fabric, while the two others determine the color on the reverse side

Krama

  • check scarves worn almost universally by Cambodians

  • made of cotton

VIETNAM

Silk painting

  • most popular forms of Vietnamese art.

  • showcase the countryside, landscapes, pagodas, historical events, or scenes of daily life

  • emphasizes softness, elegance and has a flexibility of style

Dong Son culture

  • known for its kettledrums, small carvings, and home utensils

MALAYSIA

  • Kite-making tradition

Malaysian batik

  • found in the east coast of Malaysia such as Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang.

leaves and flowers

  • most common motifs of Malaysian batik

Wau Kite

  • Malaysian kite

  • shape most closely resembled an English number 9

  • farmers used them as scarecrows in the fields.

INDONESIA

  • Shadow puppetry

batik

  • most common fabric in some Southeast Asian countries

  • derived from the word ‘ambatik’ that can be translated into ‘a cloth with little dots’.

WayangKulit

  • form of puppet shadow play performed in the Indo-Malayan archipelago

  • derived from a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist tradition

  • hand-crafted leather puppets depict epic stories of the gods in shadow play

Puppeteer or Dhalang

  • entertains and teaches

  • manipulated the puppet, usually men

BRUNEI

batik

  • has its own unique design that shows their national flower simpur, sumboi-sumboi

Flower simpur, sumboi-sumboi

  • Brunei’s traditional design of air muleh

peci or kopiah, songkok

  • cap commonly worn in Southeast Asia

  • associated with Islam in Malaysia

  • nationalist secular movement in Indonesia

SINGAPORE

  • ‘Singapura’ meaning ‘Lion City

Batik

  • uniform of flight attendants for the official flag carrier airlines of Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia

Sri Mariammam Hindu Temple

  • sculpture as old as Singapore itself.

  • dedicated to the goddess Mariammam who is worshipped for her power to cure Diseases

goddess Mariammam

  • worshipped for her power to cure Diseases

Merlion

  • mythical creature and as a symbolic nature to Singapore was widely used to represent both the country and its people.