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Shopping Tips in Bali “Shopping” is a word that can make some people very enthusiastic and especially when doing it in Bali. Bali is known as warehouse of unique handicraft. But the questions now are: What handicraft worth shopping for? Where to go and how much to pay for it? What should we know about it? The fist to do is limit your scope. You can buy almost anything in Bali, from agar-agar to zinc. The most important is how to get something that you will be happy to own and display in your home – something about value and quality; something that has entrapped part of an artist’s spirit of creativity. Such items need not necessarily be expensive. Some preliminary education is necessary. It must be kept clearly in mind that wherever in the world there profitable industry is involving the production and sales of genuine, quality crafts, hand-made by individual artist. There will be inevitably exist an equally profit-able industry dedicated to copying this works of art, using less expensive methods, mass production, materials of interior quality, misrepresentation, and outright fakery. This is not unique for Bali. It exists everywhere in the world where there are tourists. The serious shopper must know the fact. If you have seen a Balinese wood carving – how do you know whether the one you want to buy was made by an individual craftsman or mass-produced in a factory that turns out dozens of identical carving every day? That is not easy to answer because experience really the only teacher. The best advice, as it is everywhere in the world, is simply this: avoid the peddlers, the hustlers and the hawkers. Only buy from established shop with good reputation. You may pay a little more, but not necessary so. But, don’t forget that the most valuable asset of a shop is its good reputation. Education point number two: if possible shop with the expert who can assist you to find and select the shop with its best quality and price. If your time limited to three or four days in Bali, you can not get begin to see all there is to see, much less even to find the reputable stores that sales good quality craft, and shop leisurely in them. Price at almost every store is subject to bargaining. That is universal practice in Asia.
Curiously enough, one of the most popular crafts sold in Bali is not made in Bali at all, like batik for example. There is no significant batik industry here because the industry is in Central Java. But if you want to get the original of Balinese textile, don’t be afraid because there are a number of good Balinese textiles with high quality that are produced in Bali. Endek or woven cloth is a type of material known in the trade as “weft ikat”. This kind of textile can make up into a shirt, pants, dress or skirt. While on the subject of materials, you may be interested in looking at double ikat cloth called gerisngsing. It is extremely difficult and time-consuming to make and quite expensive because it takes tow or three years to make and this industry can you find in Tenganan village of Karangasem Regency. The red, yellow, and black colors come from roots, bark and leaves. Still another characteristic fabric of Bali is called Songket. This is brocaded material that is woven on a small horizontal loom called cagcag. The type of songket most popular with the Balinese has a design of gold, or sometimes silver, thread woven into the weft. Not only Balinese textile, in Bali you also can find many kind of statues that made of such material either stone or wood. A stone statue weighing several dozen kilograms is hardly to sort of thing that you can put on you suitcase and bring home as an example of Balinese craft. There are many kind of statues either made of stone or wood with unique carving and shapes, mostly it can be found in Batubulan, Gianyar Regency. Scene of monsters, legends and scenes from everyday life, heroes, etc decorate the street along Denpasar – Gianyar. Wooden statues are sold all over Bali, but you might as well go to the source in Mas, Ubud. Tegalalang, Gianyar is a center of mask wood carving, carved and painted trees of all size banana, coconut, and papaya, some of which look surprisingly like the real thing, complete with browned, insect-eaten leaves, and some of which are quite shoddy. There is a very strong, ancient traditional of carving mask for at three kinds of religious dance: Topeng, Wayang Wong and Barong Rangda made by society here. In this regency you can find bamboo furniture with price quite reasonable. The center of bamboo furniture industry is at the village of Belega near Bona with principal product are chairs and tables. But the best place to buy bamboo baskets and the home of many famous shadow play puppeteers and is the best place to buy in Sukawati. Bali is also famous for silverwork. The village of Celuk, just beyond Batubulan, on the main road toward northeast, is the home of dozens of good silver shops. Nice bracelets, pendant with turquoise, ring, nice necklace, hairpin, plated coffee, animal-in short, just about anything in silver that you can imagine at good prices. Next we come to the subject of Balinese painting. There are several numbers of painting galleries that appear in Bali, especially in Ubud if you want fine quality genuine Balinese painting. Mostly the object crude attempts to copy or play upon the tourist’s conception of a tropical paradise, a glowing sunset with a boat in a distance, a nymph taking bath and so on. But if you are interested with the classical painting styles just go to the Kamasan Village in the regency of Klungkung. The style is derived in part from the wayang kulit puppets with very conservative and highly stylized. The subject matter comes from the Hindu Epics and other legends, never from everyday life. So what are you waiting for coming and shopping to Bali while enjoys this beautiful island. Have a nice shopping till drop. |
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Point number three: almost every craft shop in Bali will give you a so-called discount, ranging 5% to 20% or more. There may be sign advertising in this fact. You may inform to the clerk about the discount when you enter or you may have to ask what the discount is. Don’t be misled; you are not getting to a discount if everyone who buys there gets it too.