Abstract :
Indonesia is a rich country, has a lot of natural beauty, cultural heritage
and ethnic diversity. Including tenun ikat. But the community knows more about
batik for the representative of the Indonesian culture than tenun ikat. Tenun ikat is
a hand-made using traditional tools, commonly called ATBM (alat tenun bukan
mesin). Almost all provinces and cities in Indonesia's cultural has this heritage,
one of them are from East Java's Kediri.
Craft tenun ikat Kediri is hereditary inheritance from their ancestors of the
craftsmen. Handicraft tenun ikat Bandar Kidul of Kediri was very unpopular, one
of the problems are the capital turnover stopped, so lot of craftsmen quit from this
business. If it continues to remain will lead to the loss of cultural preservation, so
it need to be branding to give value to tenun ikat Kediri and the cultural
preservation will be saved.