Netinngteek-borduurwerk (English: “Gajo machine-embroidery (formerly hand-embroidery)”) is a term or concept described in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in relation to Aceh. Gajo needlework/embroidery; formerly done by hand with arabesques, meanders and other figures in red, white, green and yellow on a black ground.
Translation
Gajo machine-embroidery (formerly hand-embroidery)
Description
Gajo needlework/embroidery; formerly done by hand with arabesques, meanders and other figures in red, white, green and yellow on a black ground. Now done on trap-machines in a loods on the pasar at Takengon. Products: cushions, tea-cosies, kleedjes, and the short jackets (baadjes) of Gajo women.
Significance
The term Netinngteek-borduurwerk is recorded by Jongejan as part of the cultural, administrative, or institutional vocabulary of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 78.