Pemanfaatan Tumbuhan Sebagai Pewarna Alami Kain Tenun Buna Di Desa Fafinesu Kecamatan Insana Fafinesu, Kabupaten Timor Tengah Utara

Abstract

This study aims to verify the color-producing plants, the part of the plants used, the colors produced and processing plants into natural dyes by local people in Fafinesu village. This research was conducted from May to July 2021 in Fafinesu Village, Insana Fafinesu District, North Central Timor Regency. Data collection techniques were carried out using the triangulation method, namely a combion of interviews, observations and documentation. The interview process was conducted in a semi-structured manner with informants (weaving craftsmen). The data and information collected were in the form of plant species used as natural dyes for buna woven fabrics. The part of the plants used and the colors produced. For data on plants that were not yet known, they are matched with herbarium specimens in the biology laboratory of the University of Timor. The data obtained were analyzed descriptively and qualitatively. The results showed that there were eight species of plants from six families that were used as natural dyes for buna woven fabrics in the village of Fafinesu including Curcuma longa L., Sesbania grandiflora (L.) Poir., Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq., Tectona grandis L. f., Indigofera tinctoria L., Terminalia catappa L., Mangifera indica L., and Musa acuminata Colla. The plant used to produce natural dyes for buna woven fabrics in Fafinesu Village consist of rhizomis producing yellow color, leaf producing green, purple, blue and blackish gray, bark producing red and brown colors. The method of processing plants become natural dyes for buna woven fabrics carried out in a simple and traditional way by boiling at a temperature of approximately 98-100 °C.