Bali Handmade Atta Bag & Handbag Home Industry

Offer atta grass purse, bag, handbag, basket, atta coster, accessories boxe, lunch boxe, tissue boxe, fruit boxe, bread boxe, shopping bag, camera bag, etc

Model	:	Tas Kotak Mini
Size	:	L20cm, W9cm, H13cm
Price	:	Rp.210.000 (about USD$ 24)

Order Bali handicraft handmade atta bags, handbag, basket, boxe, purse, etc

Our timeless atta grass purses & handbags are woven from a vine indigenous to the foothills of Bali's valcanoes. It is split and woven into purses, baskets, boxes, coster, etc. by master weavers from one area of Bali. The rich brown color is created by smoking the artifacts in a smoke house using a fire of coconut hesks that are soaked in honey. The color will not wear off nor will the slight smoky scent. Some purses have black designs which are woven with the root of the vine.

Walter Spies, Born: Moscow, Russia 1895
A son of German diplomat in Moscow, he was already well known in Europe as a painter in 1923. First visiting Bali from Java in 1925, he made permanent move in the middle of 1927. He is a multi talented artist, as a painter he had created many great pictures of Bali, as a musician he was the first to recognize Balinese music and to record them. In the thirties he gave the Balinese an inspiration to create - based on the older tradition - the new dance form called Kecak.

Together with Rudolf Bonnet, I Gusti Nyoman Lempad and Cokorda Gde Agung Sukawati established artists community Pita Maha, in 1932. Walter Spies facing a tragic death in 1942 when with other German civilian internees in World War II sailing from Padang in Sumatra island to Sri Lanka, the ship was bombed by a Japanese war plane and sank near Nias island. He is amongst them who were missing.

We can see his painting reproductions at ARMA, Neka Museum Ubud. His original paintings can be found at Stadtisches Museum, Dresden (before Bali period), and many private collectors.