PAYUNG GEULIS ( BEAUTIFUL UMBRELLA) - INDONESIA HERITAGE

HISTORY

Tasikmalaya, a small town in West Java, Indonesia, where I was born, has been renowned over many generations for its payung geulis handicraft (payung means umbrella, geulis is beautiful) as well as its batik. Payung geulis is not an umbrella in the traditional sense. Rather, it's a source of pride for the Tasikmalayan people and a symbol of their town, so there is no question of using this special umbrella when rain falls. Moreover, this particular payung is made from thick paper so if used during the rains, it will damage very quickly and disintegrate.

In Tasikmalaya's olden days, payung geulis used to be part of a young woman's fashion accessories. At that time most women wore kebaya (traditional costume with long sleeve blouse and long skirt) to accentuate their beauty, adding payung geulis as an accessory to protect their beautiful skin from the sun. The term "payung geulis" came about as a result of this habit; with the payung protecting their facial skin, the young women became more geulis. 

HAND MADE PRODUCT

Payung geulis is uniquely decorated with colorful flowers painted on parts of the payung. It has been a longstanding tradition that such flower painting is manually done by the young local women to express their passion and love taking the form of various flowers. From their hands have come many a payung geulis, works of art that glorify beauty.

Payung geulis  is made of bamboo. Once assembled and fitted and paper and also embroider, ends trimmed umbrella with kanji. To be attractive, given the frame with cloth part in a colorful yarn. This umbrella-making process depends on sunlight, because after a given kanji, umbrella dried until hard. Umbrella then given a color, and painted with floral patterns. All the manufacturing process  of payung Geulis created manually with handmade except umbrella handles which is made using machines, therefore, one design for one product made.

People always use this product for pre-wedding photo, studio photo, craft collection, souvenir etc

ONSALE 

The following are our small collection that's available for sale for overseas market, others collection will be published further on another website

if the stock above is sold out, you may need to wait at the latest 14 days to have it finished.

For those who are interested in this products and intending to be our re-sellers in your country, please do not hesitate to contact me 62 8129725535 , Dindin Muhan,
or drop an email to dienmuhan@gmail.com

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