Plaiting is one of the art and crafts that are unique that use mengkuang and pandan plaiting. This plaiting is used in our daily life as a place to sit and for home decorations. The researchers found that most plaiting have a variety of design on her surface that stand is made not only for daily life using only but have a meaning behind the design. The problem of this research found that plaiting decorated with fauna, flora, geometric, abstract and cosmos motifs. The question is why the plaiting is favored to be the frosting on the design of mat plaiting? To answer this question, qualitative methods are used to obtain accurate and complete field of research. The results of the research found that motifs were inspired by the environment of the matters. It consists of different types of motifs that have an implicit meaning. Each of these types of motifs describes the life of the people at that time that can serve as a reminder and a guidance. In this research, hopefully can give knowledge and exposure on the uniqueness of the mat's plaiting motifs to future generations.
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