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Malaysian Arts and Crafts.

Malaysia is colorful and rich as its multicultural background its also including their arts and

crafts, especially through Malay culture. These could be found more in classical malay

artifacts such as tools and costumes. Among of them such likes batik, sarong, and songket,

for tools, likes keris, tepak sirih, which has been used during ancient Malay civilizationaround !"" years ago.

#rom cloths to kites, Malaysian artists use various media for their e$pression. %nternationally

renowned Malaysian arts and crafts include fashionable beach sarongs.

%n east coast states of Malaysia, Terengganu and &elantan are popular with batik for souvenir

to bring home. 'atik is traditionally a techni(ue of hand)dyeing fabrics using wa$ to repel the

dye in selected places batik also refers to printed fabrics decorated with classic batik

motives. Another popular Malaysian fabric, is songket, it is made by weaving gold and silver

threads together with fabric threads to create delicate designs.

%n east Malaysia, *abah and *arawak some te$tiles have deeper religious significance. The

pua kumbu +a sacred ceremonial te$tile is a process of weaving, its represents a spiritual

and socio)religious undertaking for the %ban women in *arawak.

-abu sayong is another popular handicraft item, the most authentic ones can be found in

&ampung *ayong in erak. -abu sayong is a glossy, black)colored clay /ar. 0ach gourd)

shaped /ar takes days in forming, firing, drying and engraving.

There is dying folk art call wayang kulit +shadow puppet in &elantan. The Tok 1alang+puppet master a skillfully manipulates puppets etched from cow or buffalo leather into

riveting characters from the odysseys of 2amayana and Mahabharata, against a backdrop of

live gamelan music. 3ou also can find large and colourful kites called wau, its frame is

handmade from bamboo, while the patterns and motifs are carefully glued on piece by piece

from rice paper.

There a thousand of arts and crafts in Malaysia, this is only a small picture in arts and crafts

in Malaysia.