Ikat Weaving Sikka, Flores - NTT.

Sikka people in their daily habits and customs or religion of every ceremony, always wore a traditional woven cloth or sarong. Sikka U'tang designation for women and sarong or yeast Lipa Sikka Sikka for glove men.

Type motifs and colors as well as certain design elements are still to be divided again to the designation of the user from any strata, age, sex, for what activities, and when it is used.

Types of woven tsb consisting of: woven fabrics, woven fabrics prenggi, liin Woven, Woven neleng, woven fabrics itor. Types of custom fabric means full motifs that "rich" consists of hurang kelang (tie lines and non-tie) and high quality because it has the value of philosophy / special message and the process with a special ceremony in almost every stage of the process. The layers of motifs known as the unity hurang kelang contained in a woven cloth or sarong element differs depending on the type of motive. Motifs identified in part ina Gete (main motive) which is the name of the fabric motif tsb.

Almost in each household who still hold traditional cultural elements transmitted hereditary. Usually the mother teaches her daughter to weave to get married, because the women who are obliged to provide custom-woven fabrics are good for her future husband. Quality of woven fabric provided will be replaced with a gold Sikka also called tibu, a typical form of gold that looks like a vagina Sikka which symbolize fertility and honor that ditatakan with elements of plants or animals and humans as a symbol of life three (three elements of life). Ivory bracelet as much as 1 set (consisting of 8 pieces of ivory bracelets and 4 pieces of silver bracelets) were provided from mother to daughter as a symbol of virginity. 
 

The manufacturing process is also very complicated and need high precision in expressing the imagination as a design motif without first described in a pattern but it is directly poured imaginatively which will form a pattern of the target motif.