Textile---made in Malaysia

 

Malaysia's textiles and apparel industry accelerated in the early 1970s when the country embarked on export-oriented industrialisation.

• Any filament, fiber, or yarn that can be made into fabric or cloth, and the resulting material itself. 
• The word originally referred only to woven fabrics but now includes knitted, bonded, felted, and tufted fabrics as well. 
• The basic raw materials used in textile production are fibers, either obtained from natural sources (e.g., wool) or produced from chemical substances (e.g., nylon and polyester). 
• Textiles are often associated with the production of clothing.

Textiles are used for wearing apparel, household linens and bedding, upholstery, draperies and curtains, wall coverings, rugs and carpets, and book bindings and etc.


The example of traditional hand woven textiles in Malaysia:

In Malaysian batik is a textile art that quite distinctive.
The most popular motifs are leaves and flowers.
Malaysian batik depicting humans or animals are rare because Islam norms forbid animal images as decoration.
However, the butterfly theme is a common exception.

Beside that, Malaysian textiles can also be classified into tie and dye batik & hand drawn batik, Baba & Nyonya textile, Sarawak textile, Sabah textile and Indian textile.

Batik Cushion overthe design concept:geometric and traditional   material: cotton

A modern textile design using material sifon.

A traditional Baba Nyonya  clothing.

Some of the ladies was also sitting at there for demonstration.

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If i want to make a new product from textile, i think i will  chose a handphone cover.
I will named it "Traditional x Cover"
A traditional batik style mix with phone cover which made of cotton cloth.
People can tear out and change their phone cover everyday with different "clothes".
The phone case was washable so don't worry it will get dirty.