The Dayak wedding dress made of bark kapuak to public attention when exhibited at the Bali Arts Festival Bali in Denpasar Cultural Park.John, fashion designer from Sintang, while in the arena of PKB in Denpasar on Friday said the outfit was a traditional wedding dress on display by Studio Bujang Sebeji, Sintang Regency, West Kalimantan Province, to enliven the event PKB.

The Dayak Wedding Dress

“This wedding dress is a traditional wedding dress Sintang using natural ingredients derived from forests and combined with sequins, beads, and shellfish,” he said. Fashion designer once said that the artist was to create a dress of bark it takes about a month, depending on the size and pattern to be used.

He explained the process through to make a wooden clothes were pretty hard and long.
Bark that has been obtained then cleaved and heated so that the texture is soft. Bark pounded and then refined for further dried in the sun to dry. After a smooth sheet-shaped, then the bark was shaped into a design and ready to be sewn.