Shanti Seeds of Bali Group

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Taman, Bali, Indonesia
We are a group of bead workers from Taman and Bongkasa Village, Bali, Indonesia. We love to create beautiful things to be shared with everyone who admire beauty and creativity.

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Workshop address: Br. Tebejero, Taman, Abiansemal, Badung,Bali. email: wsueta@gmail.com Mobile: +628123929762

Saturday, December 08, 2007

Rattan Basket Weaving

It is my first woven small urn rattan basket.


It has been a long time that I have been willing to weave the rattan basket myself but it was really hard to find the raw material as they have to be imported from Borneo Island. I was very lucky to finally found a shop in Ubud that is specializing in selling rattan material. I was very happy to find them and now I can learn to weave my own baskets for the beading project. I have been learning to weave our own rattan baskets. It took me sometimes to figure out the way to weave the baskets from the finish baskets that we normally buying from a supplier in Lombok Island. It is going to be great to share it everyone in our village and hopefully that it is going to provide more works to the people in our village especially the farmers who have quit a lot of extra time after doing their works on the field. I have finished a couple baskets already and love to share them with everyone.

I hope that it is going to make it a lot easier for all to get stock for our woven baskets as we used to wait for a long time to have our baskets coming from Lombok. It has been really fun to do the weaving and figuring out my way around it. I am glad that I could do it now and have to practice more to get a better result for my woven baskets. I love to invite more people from my village to involve in weaving the baskets ourselves and I have got some good response from some elderly in the village that have a kind of hobby in weaving basketries. There are quit many young boys in our village who has no regular job and they mostly just hang around the village and doing nothing but it seems to be very hard to get them involve in the work. I have been trying to convince them that they have to do something that they could at the moment even trying something new to kill the free time. Many of them do not give any good response to my offer but I am going to keep trying to have them working. It is sad to see young people are wasting their time.

Well, again it is my dream to have people doing good and useful things for their life, not wasting the time.


My cousin Wayan Wartana and myself are weaving the rattan basket for the base of our beadwork.






I am weaving my placemat. it is the 4th items that I have woven.