Sukarara Village (Craft of Songket)

Lombok Island is an island that is not only famous for its natural beauty and tourist beach areas, but Lombok Island also has a wealth of cultural attractions and art, one of them is traditional crafts which was very impressive and famaous as "songket" developed in Sukarara village.

Sukarara is the name of a small village which is one of the traditional weaving craft center located in Jonggat district, Central Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara Province. In this village you can see the unique scenery of the local people daily activities, especially women, who are mostly working as a weaver. Although they used traditional looms are very simple, but the weaving of Sukarara Village has very good quality and very admirable. The design of woven in Sukarara Village is indeed very Oneness recognized, it can be seen from partner applications earthy colors with traditional patterns of the original eastern island of Lombok. The raw materials they use are cotton, silk, silk gold and silver silk thread. Whereas for the dyes they use are from natural dyes like reddish brown color of mahogany, light brown color of the teak trunk, brown land of tamarind seeds, dark brown color of rotting banana stems, and purple color of the skin of the mangosteen and wine. This makes the fabric weaving or songket from Sukarara village is famous for its characteristic brightly patterned songket. And also the weaving village of Sukarara widely known and highly liked by foreign tourists.

Weaving or songket fabric of Sukarara village has its own characteristics with different designs or motifs with the woven fabrics in Indonesia. A work which is very beautiful woven fabric with exclusive designs and artistic produced by the hands skilled of the women in Sukarara village. With the special characteristics and traditional designs depicting the lifestyle of ancient people with Lombok Island custom homes motive, barns and geckos motives, they still maintain to this day. Price of the fabric weaving itself depends on the difficulty level of determining motive and the long processing time. For those of you who are interested to learn and want to know more closely the way of making this songket you can directly visit this village.

How to get there

Sukarara Village location is approximately 25 km from Mataram City, or about 30 minutes in journey, and about 5 km from Praya or 5 minute journey by car or taxi.