TENUN KUBANG: SEMANGAT MEMPERTAHANKAN SENI TRADISI DARI PENGARUH MODERNITAS

Abstract

This research is aimed at analysing the preservation and harmonisation Kubang weaving
into development of technology and modernisation. Tenunan Kubang (Kubang weaving) as a
traditional art does not necessarily mean as a piece of cloth woven from threads with certain
designs, colours, and motives, yet it also contain the socio-cultural values of the area where it
originates and develops. As a traditional art, every cloth possesses splendidly woven motives.
The motives are used to be seamlessly woven with some certain, seemingly-tough level of
difficulty by using the manual-traditional weaving equipment. The influences of modernisation
are considered as an effort to preserve a sustainable tradition of Kubang weaving art. The
Approaches in the analysis is emphasied on sociological aspects of Kubang weaving products.
The data for the analysis are collected by using both the library research and field observation.
The results indicated that the long run of the Kubang weaving had always been simultaneous to
the change and development of the ages. Under the circumstances, Kubang weaving appeared
as a creative, innovative, and competitive product that maintained cultural and traditional
values. Without those values, Kubang weaving shall loose its identity and at the same time, shall
be meaningless and abandoned by the society.

Keywords: Kubang Weaving, Traditional Art, Motives, Minangkabau