Ikat Weaving

Ikat weaving only made by women and girls on southern part of Ende regency.
According to the story of the local people, there was ap pact between the people on the southern central and northern parts of ende. In the pact, the southern people should make ikat weaving that would be exchanged the foodstuff yielded by the people on the central and northern parts of Ende. If the pact broken, there would be a disaster. The pact is still carried out by the local people. For instance, the raw material such as cotton, dying materials, are sold or exchange with sawo engge pake pela nggubu nggai.

o The process of making Thread
Cotton are cleaned with ola ngeu.after that, it is cleaned again to be aroll of thresd / Elo with Wo’o/ small cotton gin. This thread is ready to be wined/nggoru with jata and ladu. The twine then rolled by make to be aball of thread (lelu meka).Then it is rolled by ola woe to become thread for goa

o Pete Tege / fastening the motif
The roll of thread tehn put on Dao Goa. After Goa Gami, the material / thread is moved to Dao make for motif fastening using the tip of boro leaves / gebang; coconut; raffia fiber, etc. The part of ikat weaving: 

Vertically :

 One / main motif
 Foko
 Mettu
 Tekka
 Eko
 Bue
 Mengge

Horizontally:

 Upu
 Lere
 Bharaka
 Lombo
 Teo Timbu One/singgi
 Engo

The main motif is the name of lawo/sarong. Rawo is Located on center part of sometimes on every sheet ofsarong. The ornament motif is the motifaccompanying the main motif called singi or geto/gero.
According to the kinds of motif and its original place, ikat weaving of Ende – Lio can be divided into two genres of ethnic :




Ende Ethnic : 
rawo Nggaja Sanggetu – Rawo Nggaja Manu – Rawo Nggaja Jara – Rawo Jara – Rawo Pea – Rawo Soke Wunu Karara – Soke Bere Kaze – Rawo rote –Rawo Mata – Rawo One Mesa – Rawo Romobo – Rawo Mangga-/ Bhuja/Ndala-Rawo Nggera/ Gero – etc

Lio Ethnic : 
Lawo Nepa Mite / Te’a – Lawo Pundi – Lawo Mogha – Lawo Kelimara – Lawa mata Sinde – Lawo koko Betho – Lawo Luka – Lawo Gami – Teraesa – Lawo Gelo -,etc


Beside Lawo / rawo , there is also ikat weaving which have form of shawl or stole such as semba – senai – Lete – Side – contemporary sheets like Ana Deo, Ine Pare, etc.