Friday, July 9, 2010

Promising Maluku Traditional Clothing Business

Traditional indigenous clothing business that was involved Aby Kastanya Maluku (60) located in Talake, Village Waihaong, Nusaniwe district, Ambon, quite exciting and has a promising prospect.


"Wearing traditional indigenous Maluku people who stitched this for not only local communities but the orders of foreign tourists from the Netherlands, America and Australia are also often interested in buying them," said Aby in Ambon, Tuesday.


According to him, customers from around the world have often visited their retail outlets to place an order typical of the traditional clothing of Maluku.


Fabric has been available so customers who come directly measured height and width of the new body to sew clothing in accordance with customer wishes Rp1.500.000 price.


"Every month there is such a foreign wiatawan from Holland who came here and their number is many. When in the 1990s, those who come only in the seasons of the school holidays between the months of June-July and they had scheduled a visit to our place to order traditional clothes, "he said.


Price sewing custom clothing for adult males ranged up to Rp850.000 Rp750.000 Rp1.500.000 whereas for women, if the buyer does not buy fabric from elsewhere.


He said it often suffered flood order custom clothing at a particular moment as various religious traditions, including the activities of foreign tourists visiting Jazz Plus Festival Parade (AJPF) 9 to 11 October 2009.


"If there are events in Ambon, we are a little inconvenience because there are orders to rent or to order large quantities of sewing clothes for the activities of dancing, singing or to the officials," he said.


To model baju kurung which received so worth 300,000, same as the model Cele clothes, while prices reached Rp750.000 salungkang cloth. because the cost of up to Rp500.000 Rp400.000 sewing for women's sizes.


"Every day there are five orders of indigenous dress in here and usually have a uniform like the traditional outfit for a dance or traditional dresses for formal occasions," he said.


Sewing custom clothing business was originally pioneered Mely Maluku since the beginning 30 years ago with a capital of a set of sewing tools.


"After my brother died, bequeathed to us their business and Prima Anek Kastanya including me," said Aby.


Since the opening of business on the 1979 custom sewing clothes, sewing kakanya only accept orders from customers and this business continues to grow, so have 13 employees for the task of cutting and sewing garments.


Kastanya family custom clothing business is also more advanced and penetrated into the photo studio run by Anek, salon business Prima and his brother held Aby manage custom clothing tailoring business

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