The Wakid is made of pieces of carefully split bamboo. The splits are tightly fitted at the base and widen at the top. The body is secured with rattan hoops at both ends and entwined with split rattan at different heights which gives it the curve and shape.
This support structure at Kota Kinabalu International Airport looks like an inspiration from the traditional basket:
A metal Wakid anyone? Maybe too big as a household ornament.
We have lots of use for it.
APPRECIATE OUR CULTURAL HERITAGE.
3 comments:
never heard of a wakid
Now that you mention it, gosh yes, the pillars does indeed resemble the wakid.
@Adam - a little bit about Sabah's Wakid and other local handicrafts
@Angie - it's great that architects and building designers took local values into consideration
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