Kue Rangi Slub Pillow Insert:Dacron Insert A large checkerboard motif set

A large checkerboard motif set in the thick plied yarns adds a chic touch to the subtlety of its light pink background

The dainty white dots resemble the isen-isen of kembang manggar batik — a type of flower craft decorating traditional festivities

To make one metre of this fabric

waiting to be gathered in time by farmers in the villages

we are repurposing five metres of traditional old-fashioned lurik which are woven by an older generation of weavers around Java

Kue Rangi Slub Pillow Insert:Dacron Insert A large checkerboard motif setUpon eating kue rangi, a traditional cake or so called jajanan pasar related to Betawinese culture, its richness in texture inspired us to create this textile piece. Sewn with a cording technique, one by one the slub yarn is hand stitched on top of a silk fabric. It is specially made out of sutera Eri, a type of rare silk fibre originating in Indonesia. The soft quality of the slub yarn intertwined with the rigidness of silk makes a wonderful contrast