About Indonesia
Decorative masks
In Indonesia, masks generally used as a part of cultural and religious performances, such as traditional dances, drama or balet, and religious ceremonies. Masks are also used widely as decorations in houses. In Java and Bali, the characters of the masks are taken from the Hindu story Ramayana and Mahabharata, although nowadays in the market we can find modern masks with various faces.
Masks that we sell here are made from tropical woods (albesian woods) and decorated manually. The masks can be put in the table/shelf (with the stand) or hanged on the wall. They can make a trully interesting part of your home interior.
Link in english for Info on masks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask
Link in english for the process to make masks http://www.ronaldnaversen.com/mask01.htm
Puppets
In Indonesia, puppets (or called in Indonesian language ´wayang´) are used mostly in theatrical puppet show. In the past, they were used to spread out religious teaching, such as hinduism and islam. Nowadays, they are used merely as entertaintment´s tools or decorations.
There are three main divisions of wayang based on the material used or thein forms:
- wayang kulit (2 dimention, from leather)
- wayang kayu (2 dimention, from wood).
- wayang golek (3 dimention, from wood and cloth)
As decoration, these puppets can be beautifully placed on stand on the tables and shelves (usually the 3 dimention puppets) or hanged on the wall (the 2 dimention puppets).
Link in english for wayang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayang
Indonesia - the archipelagic country
We are presenting our offers of exotics products from Indnesia. Indonesia is an archipelago in the southeast asia. It lies on the equator between the pasific and indian ocean and between the Asian and Australian continent. Republic of Indonesia is the biggest archipelagic country with the total of 17,508 islands, 300 different ethnics and 742 languages-dialects. Every ethnical group has its own different culture developed during the centuries with the influence from arabic countries, china and europe. Therefore, Indonesian culture is very rich on handmade productions using the materials from tropical resources.
At this moment we offer you exotics products, original and hand made from the islands of Bali, Java and Lombok.
Photographies from Indonesia can be found in our photogallery.