Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia With their variety of motifs

With their variety of motifs and their refinement

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they also protect it during all phases of life through their language of magic symbols

Wearing Wealth and Styling Identity: Tapis from Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia With their variety of motifsLocated between the two maritime routes connecing East and West Asia, Sumatra, the fabled Isle of Gold, was for centuries the source for much of the world's pepper. In the southern tip of Sumatra, the peoples of Lampung, or "Pepperland," poured the profits of their trade into ceremonial materials and adornments. The ornate tubular sarongs known as tapis were hand woven from cotton and silk threads, colored with ancestral dye recipes, embellished with