Design for songket weaving in Malay cottage industry
Songket is a traditional cultural heritage and national identity of Malaysia. Yet the hand-weaving practices are increasingly endangered and we know little about the current challenges faced by rural songket weavers. This paper interviews with 12 home-based weavers from a Malay village. We recognize...
| Published in: | Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings |
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| Format: | Conference paper |
| Language: | English |
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Association for Computing Machinery
2018
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| Online Access: | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85052015720&doi=10.1145%2f3170427.3188579&partnerID=40&md5=d095f29cf778f7308918ae12966093a2 |
| Summary: | Songket is a traditional cultural heritage and national identity of Malaysia. Yet the hand-weaving practices are increasingly endangered and we know little about the current challenges faced by rural songket weavers. This paper interviews with 12 home-based weavers from a Malay village. We recognized two key actors in songket supply and demand chain: weavers and middlemen, and outlined the motivations and challenges of three types of weavers, alongside the multiple roles played by the middleman. We concluded with three design implications supporting songket cultural heritage preservation and weavers’ economic empowerment. © 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. All Rights Reserved. |
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| DOI: | 10.1145/3170427.3188579 |