PHOTO IN LEGACY

EQUIPMENT

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Ompu Sihol’s Warping Beam A Base

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Centre peg  warping beam A

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Outer peg warping beam A

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Outer peg warping beam  A

Warping Beam B: From elderly woman in Medan who no longer needed it
Base

Centre Peg warping Beam B

Outer Peg Warping Beam B

Outer Peg Warping Beam B

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Small dye pot

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Large dye pot

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Balbal – beating stick

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Stir-stick for dye

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Indigo dye substrate in glass jar

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Half Coconut shell – used as dipper

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Ompu SiSihol’s knife used to cut yarn while weaving

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Na bara yarn

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Ompu SiSihol’s drop spindle (ordong)

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Knife for cutting indigo plant (also used for rice); Foto of Ompu SiSihol’s granddaughter cutting salaon

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Undyed white yarn,

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One sangkut yarn (na bara) diringgat (ordered) (The plastic rope keeps the red yarn in order.)

White ikat in black-dyed yarn

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Undyed yarn, ikat-tied

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Red yarn (na bara)

Fine cotton yarn used for weaving modern textiles in the Silindung Valley 1986.  Range of available colours.

Black yarn

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Swift A (pangulhulan) base; foto of Ompu Sihol demonstrating its use.

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Wings Swift A

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Old can – attached to the swift. Ompu Sihol used it to place her ball of yarn in it when she was interrupted in her work.

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Swift B(pangulhulan)
From Silalahi; Foto of user – mother of Kepala Desa Silalahi

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Wing 1 of 4 of swift

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Wing 2 of 4 of swift

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Wing 3 of 4 of swift

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Wing 4 of 4 of swift

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Swift C (pangulhulan) from Muara (SouthWest Bank of Lake Toba)

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Wing 1 (of 2) Swift C

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Wing 2 (of 2) Swift C

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Swift D (if it can be called such, because it doesn’t turn)
- old -  from Ompu SiSihol
1 tripod of two

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Swift D 2nd tripod of two

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Swift D 1 bamboo pipe of two

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Swift D 2nd bamboo pipe of two

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Swift E Wooden base

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Swift E One arm of two

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Swift E Second arm of two

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Hulhul – small ball of fabric used for the centre of a ball of yarn

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Reel A: foto of Ompu SiSihol singing while using it.

Reel B: Made in Simanindo (Northern tip Samosir Island) by request S. Niessen, never used. Amang Adir

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Ompu SiSihol’s Starching brush, Unggas – made in Nainggolan

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Ompu SiSihol’s loom (on which I took lessons from her) with finished ragi hotang

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Upright poles on which the warp beam of the loom hangs when in use

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Sitadoan – bar against which the weaver pushes with her feet as she weaves

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Mat – which Ompu SiSihol sat on while weaving

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Bench – for resting weaving implements while weaving – to the right of the loom

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Bamboo poles on which the loom rests when the weaver is not working (so that it doesn’t touch the ground); see foto

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Backstrap – wooden yoke fastened behind the weaver’s back

Yarn for Ragi Hotang

Hait benang

benang

Bonang 100

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Simalungun weft bobbin

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Two, carved, bamboo weft-holders