Holiday Ayo - The Pusako Weaving House in the Pandai Sikek area, which is an area of Tanah Datar Regency, West Sumatra Province, has a building form in a style like Koto Piliang's Gadang House.

Not only that, the Pusako Pandai Sikek Weaving House is a family business that has been started in 1975. The Pusako Pandai Sikek Weaving House was built in 1978 and still looks very beautiful today.

If you look at the Pusako Pandai Sikek Weaving House from the front, it looks like it has three pairs of roofs that have a shape that resembles buffalo horns, and also steps to get to the main room.


The colors and motifs on the walls are very beautiful and mesmerizing. The ornaments on the outer walls are shaped like leaves and flowers which are dominated by dark red, yellow, pink, blue, and light blue colors.

Pandai Sikek is not only famous for its weaving. This place is getting more beautiful with the traditional houses that they still maintain to this day.

The traditional houses in Pandai Sikek are inhabited, not just displays or museums. In fact, the house became a place for processing woven sikek.

For those of you who are visiting Bukittinggi or Padang Panjang, please stop by here to look for souvenirs from Pandai Sikek's typical woven cloth directly from the place of production.

The tourism potential in Nagari Pandai Sikek is supported by natural resources such as panoramic views of the mountains and agricultural areas. as well as human resources that are applied in the form of weaving crafts, wood carvings, traditional arts and so on.

The motifs of woven fabrics in this Nagari are always taken from examples of old fabrics that are still well stored and are often used as clothing at traditional ceremonies and for other functions within the scope of traditional ceremonies.

Pandai Sikek weaving motifs are believed to be the original motifs on the woven fabrics of Pandai Sikek women in the past. While the carving products in this Nagari are used for Gadang Houses.



Specifically, the songket woven fabrics by the Pandai Sikek regional craftsmen have three types of mandatory motifs that are always displayed in every woven fabric manufacture, both in the manufacture of songket woven fabrics as traditional ceremonial instruments, as well as practical products.

The appearance of these three types of motifs is one of the characteristics of the resulting songket woven fabric.

That is, if the three types of motifs are not found on a piece of songket woven cloth, then it can be ascertained that the songket woven cloth is not the work of the craftsmen of the Pandai Sikek area.