Dressing place for Bhuta Yajnai dancers
I was leaded into the dressing room, where the dancers got fixed in very colorful and costly costumes. Geg Adii (right side), and her classmates schoolgirls from the Sembung village, get dressed and makeup for her performance showing a short time after I shot this photo.
Not only in Bali, but the whole of western Indonesia, uses the word songket to describe a technique in which additional patterns are woven into a material with supplementary weft threads. Gold and silver threads are used in these textiles, the earliest ones being made of silk. Originally they would have been brought by Indian traders.
Benita Sittner 12/03/2016 21:52
...prachtvolle Gewänder....tolle Erlebnisse hattest Du auf Bali...VLG BenitaMatthias Krug-Bamberg 12/03/2016 11:14
Dass du als Fotograf bis ins "Allerheiligste" vordringen durftest, war bestimmt ein großer Glücksfall für Dich. Mit entsprechend großartigem Resultat.HG Matthias