Art Gallery Shops in Lampung
Lampung is famous for its beautiful tapis woven fabrics. Therefore, you find
a lot of art gallery shops around the city. Some of art gallery shops not only
sell tapis cloth, shirts, shoes, bags and other ornamental articles specially
designed with Lampung characteristics, but also shows how the woven fabrics are
processed.
Tapis clothes are known as Lampung’s woven traditional clothes worn by
both women and men when attending ceremonial wedding parties or traditional
feasts. Art gallery shops mushroom in the city of Bandar Lampung, especially when
there are exhibitions or national events.
Lampung traditional clothes are also rented
out as wedding parties usually involve wedding committee members who are
required to wear traditional clothes when accepting invited guests. This condition
is benefited by some event organizers and art gallery shops to rent out traditional
tapis clothes. At least one a week,
there are always wedding parties in Bandar Lampung; so, the renting
business of Lampung’s traditional clothes has become the source of income for
some people.
Art gallery shops are usually owned by
people of Lampung since they are supposed to know the ins and outs of
traditional clothes and lampung culture. Visitors to the city of Bandar Lampung
usually ask questions regarding the history of woven clothes before deciding to
purchase the fabrics.
According to some of art gallery shops in
Lampung, most buyers of traditional clothes are visitors or tourists as
souvenirs to be brought home. There are a few of local people who buy
traditional clothes as their private collections but most residents of Lampung rent the clothes for
special events like wedding ceremonies or traditional feasts among Lampung
people.
One of the programs of the
government of Lampung province is to presevere this deeply rooted valuable
traditions that Lampung is proud of ; therefore, Lampung’s residents are
expected to uphold custom and tradtion of Lampung.
